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The Iuan^'--f lowered Japirifet 



'Japirira myriantha Trit^na i. Planchon, inn. 3c. ilat. 3ot. 

 V. 14:29b. 1872. 



Description of the tree 



A tree, 25 meters high or more, the trunk 80 cm. in dia- 

 meter at the base, the ramification ai:cending, irregular, 

 forming a rounded, depressed crown; bark grayish and rimose 

 on the trunk, brownish and dotted with nuaerous lenticels 

 on the ycxinger branchleta. Leaves inpa rip innate, with 5 

 to 9 leaflets, the raohis 8 to 18 cm. long, minutely pubes- 

 cent, the i^etiole about 6 cm. long, deeply canaliculate 

 and taperiiig from the base; petiolules pubescent, the la- 

 teral ones 7 to 10 mm. long, the terminal ones 15 to 18 mm.; 

 leaflet blades oblique, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nulate, 9 to 22 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm, broad, the margin en- 

 tire, the venation prominent beneath and Sx-arsely pubescent, 

 j'loral paiiicles axillary and subterminal, equal to the 

 leaves or shorter, densely flowered, the rachis more or 

 less ferruginous-pubescent. Llale flowers small, ^.pedicellate, 

 single or many- cluste red ; j;edicels very short, hairy; calyx 

 about 7 mm. long, hairy, the 5 lobules rounded, obtuse; 

 petals 5, oblong-elliptic, acute or denticulate at the 

 apex, 1,5 to 1.7 mm. long, pale yellow; stamens 10, hardly 

 exceeding the corolla; rudimentary pistil obscurely 5- 

 .^.arted at the tixj, 



jescrij^vtion of the wood 



Sapwood thin, light brown; heartwood slightly darker or 

 light mahogany colored. Wood laoderately hard, heavy, strong, 

 tough, straight and f ine-gi*ained, taking a very good polish. 

 Annual rings of growth usually not visible. 



Peres numerous, regularly distributed throughout the 

 wood, very small (about .10 m:i. in diameter), round or radially 

 flattened when in groups, open or sometimes closed with dark 

 brown tyloses in the heartwood, and arraaiged singly or very 

 rarely in short radial rows of from 2 to G. Vessel walls 



