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in an indumentum composed of a few clavate red blacken- 

 ing shortly-stalked glands and very many floccose greyish 

 withered hairs, ultimately glabrescent and yellow-green, 

 punctulate with cicatrices of the fallen glands. Foliage 

 buds unknown. Leaves petiolate as much as 14 cm. 

 long ; lamina rigid somewhat thickened coriaceous oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblong-ovate as much as 12 cm. long and 

 4*5 cm. broad narrowed to the acute apex which is some- 

 times somewhat beaked and ends in a small dark-red 

 horny tubercle, margin cartilaginous slightly recurved 

 and roughened by scars of fallen glands or hairs, base 

 obtuse or somewhat rounded ; upper surface olivaceous or 



doruin plus minus ve vestitus plerumque glabrescens. Flores breviter 

 racemoso-umbellati circ. 8 in quaque inflorescentia rhachi vix 1 cm. longa 

 rufo-floccosa; bracteae fertilesspadiceo-brunneae lateoblongo-spatbulatae 

 circ. 2'5 cm. longae circ. 1-5 cm. latae apice rotnndatae vel subtruncatae 

 saepemucionatae rnfo-ciliatae centro coriaceae niargine submembranaceae 

 et ciliatae intns (dimidio infero excepto) extusque dense piloso-sericeae ; 

 bracteolae filiformes aurantiacae pedicellis breviores adpre.sso-pilosae ; 

 pedicelli validi ad 8 mm. longi saepe Ijreviores apice obliqui glandulis 

 phirimis rubris longe et breviter sti^^itatis et pilis sebaceis floccosis 

 paucioribua vestiti. Calyx minutiis cupularis circ. I'T) mm. longus fere 

 ad basim in lobos b carnosulos late ovatos fissiis ubique extus rubro- 

 glandulosns et pilis sebaceis rnfis floccosis copiose obsitus margine 

 glanduloso-ciliatus. Corolla pallide ro.sea tubuloso-campannlata circ. 4'r) 

 cm. longa saepe minor circ. 3'5 cm. longa extus basi puberula et ad venulas 

 supra glandulis panels praedita intus puberula et pcstice atrorubro- 

 maculataevariculata basi Sgibbosa, 5-lobata, lobisrotundatisemarginatis 

 subcrenulatis in tioribus majoribus circ. 1"8 cm. longa et 2'5 cm. lata. 

 Stamina 10 inaequalia in floribus majoribus longiora circ. 3 cm. longa 

 breviora circ. 2 cm. antheris circ. 2 mm. longis, filamentis deorsum ex- 

 pansis a basi ima sursum ultra medium dense pubescentibus eglandulosis. 

 Discus glaber. Gynaeceum in floribus majoribus circ. 3-8 cm. longum ; 

 ovarium conoideum pauUo sulcatum nigrescens circ. 6 mm. longum circ. 

 3 mm. diam. dense floccoso-pilosum pilis albidis vel rufo-sebaceis a 

 basi strictini- et adscendentim ramosis glandulas clavatas aurantiacas 

 breviter stipitatas pauciores intermixtas obtegentibus et occludentibus ; 

 •stylus gracilis ut ovarium pilis et glandulis ex toto dense (vel ad 

 medium laxius; ol;tectus sub stigmate subspongioso subdiscoideo baud 

 ampliatus. Capsula leviter curvata circ. 4 cm. longa circ. 1 cm. diam. 

 glabrescens nigra indumenti jiivenilis collappi vestigiis plus minusve 

 praedita, calyce cupulari persistente paullo aucto basi cincta, stylo 

 delapso. Semina oblonga coniplanata circ. 3 mm. longa 1 nmi. diam. 

 rufo-aurantiaca circumcirca alata et caruncula chalazali albida cristata. 



Species Rh. irrorato, Franch. affinis sed foliis majoribus oblongo-lanceo- 

 latis vel oblongo-ovatis nee oblanceolatis, petioli indumento persisten- 

 tiore, inflorescentiae ihachi rufo-floccosa, pedicellis vix 1 cm. longis 

 glandulosis et floccosis, calyce glanduloso et Hoccoso, corolla basi extus 

 puberula, staminum fdamentis ad medium vel ultra pul)e.scentibus, 

 ovario et stylo ex toto pilis sebaceis floccosis glandulas occludentibus 

 dense (stylo nunc partim et laxius) vestito distinguenda. 



