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to 30 meters; diameter of trunlz 15 to 40 cm.). Trunk and 

 limbs aculeate; terminal branchlets xinarmed. (Leaves enti- 

 rely glabrous, 6 or 7-foliolate. Petioles slender, 4 to 5 

 cm. long, x'etiolules E to 3 mm, long, canaliculate. Leaf- 

 let blades cblong-cuneate, rounded-emarginate at the a^jex, 

 light green above and glaucous beneath, the terminal ones 

 9 cm. long, 4.5 cm. broad, the lateral ones about 4 cm. 

 long and 2 cm. broad. Venation jjrominent Oii both sides of 

 the olade; veins straight, connected at tneir ends, i^argin 

 Sntire. ^'lowers loosely paniculate at the end cf nev; branch- 

 lets. P ^icels glabrous, articulate, 5 mm, long, provided 

 with 3 rounded, scaly, caducous bractlets about 1.5 mm. 

 long, Galyx tubular, truncate, v/ith irregular, often 5-mu- 

 cronulate margin, eglandulose, obscurely tomentose, about 8 

 mm. long and 5 mm. in diameter. Petals inserted around a 

 Guplike disk about 2.5 mm. long, sli^Thtly connate at the 

 base, laciniate, reflexed, 8,5 to 10 cm. long, 6 to 9 mm. 

 broad, rounded and often mucronulate at the apex, densely 

 dark-dotted without except on the covered margin, minutely 

 pubescent and white within. Stamiiial tube 2.2 cm. long and 



3 to 4 mm. in diameter, softly hairy; filaments slender, white, 



4 to 7 cm. long, free from the base, glabrous; anthers 

 oblong- reniform, dorsifixed. Pistil glabrous, about 9 cm. 

 long; ovary subglobose, about 2 ram. long; style slender, 

 ending in a purple, minute, obscurely 5- tipped stigma. 

 Capsule ovoid, pentagonal and truncate, 6 to 7 om. long and 

 4 cm, in diameter, greenish and smooth without, dehiscent, 

 the valves 1.5 to 2 cm. .vide, lieeds small, ovate, smooth, 

 brownish with black dots, wrapped in a silky, pale brown 

 wool,' 



Description of the v/ood 



Sapwood thick and nearly white; heartwood yellowish 

 white only slightly darker than the sapwood, wood modera- 

 tely soft, lijht, rather v/eak and bri.ttle and coarse- 

 grained, not susceptible of a good polish. It splits and 

 works easily. Annual rings of growth visible only under 

 hand lens or compoxind microscope. 



Pores ( tx-ansverse section) not nuinerous, conspicuous 

 (about .28 m..a. in diameter) nearly round or slightly radially 

 elongated, usually open both in sapwood and heartwood and 

 arranged sixigly or in pairs, rarely three in a row. Vessel 



