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forest. Branches slender. Branchlets a year old about 

 I'D mm. iu diameter clad more or less with white floccose 

 hairs glabrescent ultimately becoming reddish-purple and 

 puuctulate ; then dirty grey and shedding the bark. Mature 

 buds of foliage-leaves unknown. Leaves petiolate as much 

 as 13o cm. long ; lamina papery broadly lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate as much as 12 cm. long and 4)3 cm. broad, 

 narrowed to the apex and sometimes shortly acuminate 

 sometimes obtuse and somewhat beaked terminated by 

 a small horny tubercle, margin cartilaginous recurved 

 undulate somewhat roughened by the scars of fallen 

 appendages, obtuse or subcuneate at the base ; upper 

 surface olivaceous or brown - olivaceous mat, midrib 

 grooved, the groove more or less lined by vestiges of hairs, 

 primar}?^ veins about 16 pairs, the ultimate reticulation 

 of the veinlets inconspicuous, the whole surface smooth 

 and apparently glabrous but obscurely marked by the 

 vestiges of young flocks ; under surface paler often tawny 

 somewhat glossy, the reddening midrib and the primary 

 veins raised punctulate by the red bases of fallen flocks 

 (or glands ?) rest of the surface glabrous ; petiole as much 

 as 1"5 cm. long more often shorter thick reddish-purple 

 crrooved above more or less floccose but glabrescent. 

 Flowers racemose-umbellate about 8 in each inflorescence 

 which has a slender scurfy rhachis reaching 2 cm. long; 

 bracts deciduous unknown; bracteoles- iiliform rufescent 

 about 8 mm. long shorter than the pedicels silkily hairy ; 

 pedicels about 1 cm. long stoutish blackish-purple most 

 sparingly sprinkled with short floccose hairs or glabrous. 

 Calyx minute cupular fleshy about 2 mm. long, the cup 

 glabrous ; lobes 5 broadly ovate glabrous outside, margin 

 sparingly ciliate with greasy hairs. Corolla crimson 



loiigis circ. 2 cm. lalis. Stamina 10 inaequalia longiora circ. 3 cm. longa 

 breviora circ. r5 cm. longa corolla styloi^ue mulLo bi'eviora antlieris circ. 

 2'.0 mm. lougis, (ilamentis basi vix laLioribus glabris. Discus glaber. 

 Gynaeccum ad 4'2 cm. longum corolla pauUo brevius ; ovarium circ. 

 7 nun. longum cylinilricum glabrum uigrescens leviter sulcatum obscure 

 papillatotubcrculatum ; stylus longus stamina longe superans glaber in 

 stigma pur|jurascens lolmlatum paullo anijiliatus. 



Species Hk. araiophyllo, Half. f. at VV. VV. Sm. proxima foliis latioribus 

 sulcus piirictulatis, 2jedicellis(.sub 1 cm.) multo minoribus, inllorescentiae 

 rhachi furfuracea, corolla intense kermeaina tuljiiloso-cami)anulata 

 qua'Iraiile majore, stamiuum liiamentis glaberrimis, ovario glabro, stylo 

 longo fere corollam aequante facile recognoscenda. 



