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red glands which may be numerous ; under surface more 

 sparingly beset with shorter cauliflower glands or solitary 

 greasy hairs ; petiole densely glandular. Leaves petiolate 

 as much as 14'5 cm. long usually less ; lamina rigid thick 

 coriaceous usually narrowed to both ends lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate as much as 12 '5 cm. long and 3 cm. broad, 

 somewhat acute at the tip with a horny tubercle, margin 

 broadly cartilaginous slightly revolute the edge roughened 

 or notched owing to projecting reddish feet of fallen 

 juv^enile hairs, base obtuse or slightly rounded; upper 

 surface pale glaucous green, midrib deeply grooved, 

 primary veins about 16 pairs pinnately spreading at a 

 wide angle ' slightly grooved, whole surface glabrescent 

 with vestiges of the juvenile hairs ; under surface paler 

 usually fawn-colour, midrib and primary v^eins elevated 

 straw-coloured, whole surface minutely punctulate by red 

 bases of fallen juvenile cauliflower glands or greasy hairs ; 

 petiole as much as 2 cm. long usually less, grooved above, 

 thick somewhat fleshy slightly reddened, more or less 

 glandular or marked by vestiges of fallen stalked rufous 

 glands or hairs. Inflorescence shortly racemose umbellate 

 many flowered (over 15), rhachis up to 3 cm. long (often 

 shorter) rufously glandular ; bracts outer sterile tawny 

 rounded sometimes apiculate, margin ciliate, clad like outer 

 perulae of foliage buds, inner fertile oblong-spathulate 

 subtruncate submembranaceous about 35 cm. long 1 cm. 

 broad, densely sericeous, outside with single white hairs 

 towards apex mixed with glands and floccose greasy hairs, 

 inside glabrous except at apex where is a tuft of white 

 crumpled hairs ; bracteoles flliform slightly wider at in- 

 sertion silkily pilose about TS cm. long or shorter, longer 

 than pedicel ; p(;dieel pale yellow-green about 1*3 cm. long- 

 stout glandular with clavate crimson glands. Calyx minute 

 about 2 mm. long cupular densely glandular outside with 

 5-r(junded soini-lunate or ovate or broadly triangular lobes, 

 gland-fringed always epilose. Corolla white or pale yellow 

 or greenish- white with more or fewer crimson spots (there 

 may be many on all the petals) sometimes only a few 

 on the posterior petal and without a blotch posteriorly 

 somewhat fleshy variable in size from 3 to 5'5 cm. long, 

 always longer than stamens and gynucceum, tubular- 



