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a surface stratum of white desquamating wax or its vestiges. 

 Foliage-leaf buds and juvenile leaves unknown. Leaves 

 petiolate as much as 17'5 cm. long; lamina of consistence 

 of parchment long lanceolate occasionally oblanceolate 

 narrowed to both ends, as much as 16 cm. long and 4"5 cm. 

 broad, apex acute or acuminate not beaked ending in a 

 horny hydathodal tubercle, margin slightly recurved 

 cartilaginous obscurely undulate and minutely marked 

 by the bases of fallen juvenile hairs, base obtuse ; upper 

 surface olivaceous somewhat glossy, very glabrous, the 

 midrib not reddening grooved, primary veins as many as 

 25 pairs hardly conspicuous, elsewhere conspicuously 

 reticulate (in dry state) ; under surface tawny hardly 

 punctulate very glabrous, midrib and primary veins elevated, 

 the network of the ultimate veins reddish, the whole surface 

 somewhat glossy smooth as if wax-varnished the coating' 

 in places obscuring the ultimate venation, epidermis 

 epapillate ; petiole thick about 1'5 cm. long wrinkled grooved 

 above apparently glabrous but clad with a desquamating 

 white (often blackening) stratum of wax. Flowers of the 

 inflorescence about 8, racemosely umbellate, the axis of in- 

 florescence about 1'5 cm. long densely tomentose with white 

 floccose adpressed hairs ; fertile bracts membranaceous 

 tawny spathulate as much as 2 cm. long and 7 mm. broad, 

 apex rounded or somewhat truncate and emarginate, ciliate, 

 outside densely silky througliout, inside near apex in the 

 middle silky ; bracteoles filiform adpressed-pilose through- 

 out about 1 cm. long ; pedicels scarcely 1 cm. long glabrous 

 brown. Calyx cupular minute about 1"5 mm. long outside 

 glabrous ; lobes deltoid sometimes broadly semi-lunate 

 minutely fimbriate. Corolla red (/), tubular-campanulate 

 as much as 4"3 cm. long exceeding the stamens and 

 gynaeceum, outside and inside glabrous, red-spotted pos- 

 teriorly, 5-lobed ; lobes unequal posterior slightly larger 



spicua ; corolla 25-30 mm. longa, anguste canipanulata .'>-loba ; ovarium, 

 stylusj totns et stamiiium filameiita 10, perfecte glal^ra ; stamina et 

 stylus haud exserla. 



Vall(':e du Loukiang, k Tsukou (Souli(', n. 1000; IG mars 1895). 



Assez voisin du lik. arboreum et des especes du meme groupe, c'est- 

 u-dire de celles qui out 10 etamines et une corolle a 5 lobes, mais dis- 

 tinct par I'otat completement glabre de I'androcee et du gynocee ; le 

 Rh. Bonvaloti auquel il ressemble surtout a le gyrn'ooe et I'androcee 

 glanduleux. 



