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form glands, scale-leaves, and bracts of previous years. 

 Branches viscid towards the summit, about 4 mm. in 

 diameter, densely clad with red clavate glands with long 

 red stalks, setiform. Foliage buds unknown. Leaves 

 petiolate reaching 18 cm. in length ; lamina chartaceous 

 lirm narrowl37^ oblanceolate as much as 16'5 cm. long 

 3*5 cm. broad narrowing to the somewhat beaked and 

 acutish apex, margin cartilaginous obscurely undulate and 

 somewhat rufous reddened by the bases of fallen hairs, 

 narrowing to the unequal somewhat obtuse base ; upper 



versus viscidi circ. 4 nun. diani. glandulis rubris clavatis longe rubro- 

 stipitatis setifoi-niibus dense obsiti. Alabastra ignota. Folia jjetiolata 

 ad 18cra. longa ; lamina chartacea iirma angnste oblanceolata ad 16'5 cm. 

 longa ad 3 '5 cm. lata apice attenuata sul)rostratim acutiuscula margine 

 cartilaginea obscure undulata et pedibus pilorum delapsorum subas- 

 perata deorsum atlenuata basi inaequaliter obtus^a supra opaca hand 

 nitens olivacea costa media sulcata sulco pilis sebaceis et glandulis mar- 

 cidis impleto venis primariis utrinsecns circ. 16 baud prominulis caetero- 

 quin ))lana et primo aspectu glaberrima sed pedibus rubris glandularum 

 vel pilorum floccosorum delapsorum minntissime punctulata et setis 

 paucis conspersa subtus fulvida costa media venisque primariis elevatis 

 erubescentibus ex toto glandulis rubris setiformibu? et pilis sebaceis 

 albidis vel rubris tloccosis vel eorum vestigiis indutis venularum reti 

 jjaullo conspicuo et similiter sparsim punctulato ; petiolus ad 1'5 cm. 

 longus crassus setis longis rubris tandem nigricantibus glandulosis 

 densissime ex toto vestitus. Flores breviter racenioso-umbellati circ. 

 8 in intl orescent! a qiiaque terminali rbachi circ. 1 cm. longa glandu- 

 loso-setosa ; bracteae steriles rotund atae crustaceo-coriaceae intus plus 

 minusve sericeo-puberulae margine tenuiores, fertiles late obovatae circ. 

 2 cm. longae supra circ. 1 cm. latae extus et intus sericeae eglandulosae 

 margine apiceque pilis rubris fimbriatae; bracteolae lineares uninerviae 

 adpresso-pilosae fere pedicellos aequantes ; pedicelli ad 2 cm. longi crassi 

 sub Hore obliqui densissime glanduloso-setosi glandularum stipitibus 

 rubris longis et brevibus. Calyx parvus circ. 2 mm. longus cujjularis 

 carnosulus, cupula dense glanduloso-setosa glandulis rubris, lobis del- 

 toideis purpureis glabris. Corolla purpureo-rosea aperte campanulata 

 circ. 3*8 cm. "longa extus intusque glabra postice varo basali coccineo 

 uotata emaculata basi 5-gibbosa retusa 5-lobata, lobis circ. 1'6 cm. 

 longis circ. 2 cm. latis rotundatis emarginatis subcrenulatis. Stamina 

 10 inaequalia, longiora circ. 3 cm. longa breviora circ. 15 cm. antheris 

 circ. 4 mm. longis brunneis, filamentis deorsum paullo latioribus a basi 

 ima ad apicem ovarii puberulis. Discus albido-pubescens. Gynaeceum 

 circ. 3'8 cm. longum ; ovarium circ. 5 mm. longum cylindricum pro- 

 funde sulcatum nigrescens glandulis rubris plurimis longe rufo-stipitatis 

 subadpressis densissime obtectum et setis paucioribus longis (circ. 

 4 mm.) sebaceis rufis adscendentibus acutatis intermixtis praeditum ; 

 stylus ex toto rubro-glandulosus glandulis inferis longe superis breviter 

 stipitatis sub stigmate lobulato \ix expansus. 



Species Rh. gymnantho, Dielsaffinis ramulis et petiolis et inflorescentiae 

 rhachi et pedicellis et calyce et ovario ulanduloso-setosis, foliis supra 

 opacis baud nitentibus, pedicello 2 cm. longo, disco pubescente, stylo 

 glandiiloso facile recognoscenda. 



