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diameter pale careen glabrous minutely punctulate with 

 the red (finally blackening) bases of fallen glands (or 

 flocks). Scale-leaves of the oblong ovoid obtuse about 

 5 mm. in diameter foliage-leaf buds more or less viscid 

 and furnished with red sessile glands ; outer scale-leaves 

 small semi-lunate and rounded about 3 mm. long and 

 broad crustaceously coriaceous, brown, inside at the base 

 and apex adpressed puberulous, margin minutely gland- 

 fimbriate or shortly gland-pilose ; inner scale-leaves oblong- 

 ovate or oblong-elliptic obtuse viscid. Leaves petiolate as 

 much as 18'5 cm. long; lamina coriaceous or thickly chart- 

 aceous oblanceolate as much as 12 cm. long and 4 cm. broad 

 narrowed to the somewhat beaked or shortly acuminate 

 apex, mucronulate^ margin cartilaginous obscurely undulate 

 somewhat flat slightly roughened by the cicatrices of fallen 

 glands, base obtuse or widely cuneate often unequal ; upper 

 surface pale or dark olive-green often becoming brown, mat 

 not glossy with a grooved midrib, the primary veins about 

 18 pairs inconspicuously grooved, the rest of the surface 

 smooth very glabrous but minutely red-punctulate from the 

 persistent bases of fallen glands ; under surface yellowish- 

 buft' or greyish-brown or reddish-brown somewhat glossy, 

 the midrib and primary veins slightly reddening and con- 

 spicuously raised, the network of the veinlets slightly raised, 

 everywhere at first sight glabrous but punctulate with the 

 red bases of fallen glands ; petiole as much as I'o cm. long 

 thick sulcate above, reddening glabrescent, red-punctulate 

 like the lamina. Flowers racemose- umbellate about 10 in 

 each inflorescence the axis about 1*8 cm. long glabrous; 



circ. 1"5 mm, longus cupularis glaber vel pilis sebaceis nifis floccosis 

 paucis conspersus, lobis vix conspicuis deltoideis vel ovatis elimbriatis. 

 Corolla keriuesiua campamilata circ. 4"5 cm. longa extus intusque glabra 

 postice varo maguo atro-kermesino notata emaculata 5-retiiso-gibbosa 

 5-lobata, lobis circ. 2 cm. longis circ. 2'5 cm. latis subellipticis vel 

 rotundatis emarginatis subcrenulatis. Stamina 10 inaequalia longiora 

 circ. 3-6 cm. longa antheris circ. 4 mm. longis breviora I'd cm. longa 

 antheris circ. 3 mm. longis, filamentis basi dilatatis glabris. Discus 

 glaber. Gynaeceum circ. 3'6 cm. longum ; ovarium conoideum leviter 

 sulcatum nigrescens obscure transverse areolatum circ. 5 mm. longum 

 jjilis sebaceis rubris floccosis sparsissime conspersum ; stylus glaber sub 

 stigmate lobulato purpureo vix ampliatus. 



Species Rh. gymncoitho, Diels affinis sed foliis brevioribus et 

 latioribus supra opacis, inflorescentiae rhachi glabra, calycis lobis 

 efimbriatis, corolla campanulata, staminum filamentis glabris, ovario 

 sparsissime floccoso distinguenda. 



