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diameter, the trtml: straight, the ^^^rimary branches fev/ and 

 radiating; branohlets slender, densely stellate hairy, 

 leaves distichous, oblique, trinerve, coriaceous; the petio- 

 les terete, 4 to 10 mm. long, brov/n and velvety; the blades 

 narrow elliptic, 15 to 32 cm. long, 5 to 9 cm. broad, abruptly 

 long acuminate, glabrous and sublustrous above, covered 

 beneath with a danse film of v/hite, stellate hairs; margin 

 entire; venation j^rominent on the lower face, subglabrous 

 or sparsely pubescent glandulous. Cymes fasciculate, many 

 flowered, issuing from the trunic only, below the first limbs, 

 yophyllum and bracts fugacious; peduncles and pedicels 

 brownish velvety, the latter slender, 5 to 8 mm. long; lobes 

 of the calyx 5, partea almost to the base, elliptic, obtuse, 

 8 to 9,5 mm. long and 3 to 3.5 mm. long, glabrous and red 

 within, covered without with a dense film of pale purple 

 stellate hairs, intermixed with dark purple, glandular ones; 

 petals 5, about 9 nva. long, the Rood yellov/ish red with 5 

 red veins, pubescent without, the ligule sessile, suborbicu- 

 lar, red, about 4 nan, long and broad; staminal tube 2.5 mm. 

 long, the 5 staminodes lanceolate, dark purple, u mm. long, 

 the stamens 5, diantheriferous, pendulous. Ovary ovoid, 

 2.3 mm. long, pubescent; styles glabrous, white, 1.6 mm. 

 long. Fruit with a coriaceous pericarp.") 



I>escri_t,:)tion of the wood 



Sapwood very thin and light brown; heartwood dark brown, 

 straight and close grained, taking a fairly good polish. 

 Annual rings of growth visible under a hand lens. 



Pores (transverse section)/ fev/, rather small (about 

 .14 mm. in diameter), round, Open both in sapwood and heart- 

 wood, and arranged singly or in short radial rov/s. Vessel 

 walls (longitudinal section) with numerous, small, bordered 

 pits, with transitions to simple pits. Perforations usually 

 scalariform v/ith from 1 to 2 bars. The wood fibers about 

 1.4^ m;n. long, with relatively thick walls, small luraina , 

 and small, alit-like, simple pits. V/ood parenchyma sbun- 

 dantly developed and ci^curring in very many, narrow, usually 

 from 1 to 2 cells wide, "^"regular tangential rows.' >{ays cons- 

 picuous, from 8 to 12 cells wide and from 8 to 10 times as 

 high.; 



