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the trunk straight, urovided at the base with low, flat 

 huntresses a:.H Sov^rfel ^^^^h a reddish, scaly bark, the ra- 

 mification radiate and short, the crown elongate, the young 

 shoots, leaves and flowers glabrous. ( Leaves opi,o£ite, entire, 

 coriaceous; the petioles canaliculate, about 1 cm. ion^ ; 

 the blades entire, 6 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. bread; 

 ccsta and veins ^jrominent on the lower face, the latter 

 slender, ijarallel, crowded to^^jetner and ruxuaing straight to 

 the margin, ii'lowers single or clustered at the end^of the 

 branchlets; the peduncles about 1.2 cm. long; se^^als 5, sub- 

 crbiculate, about 5 nim. long and broad; petals 5, thick, 

 broadly ovate, red, 1.5 am. long; disc cupuliform, extrasta- 

 minal, about 1.5 m.n. high; staminal tube obpyriform, red, 

 qbout 1 cm. long, dividing into 5 broad rays, each of which 

 bears 3 extrorse anthers; ovary cvoid-oblong, sessile, 5- 

 celled, each cell pluriovulate; style thick, about 7 mi.i. 

 long, 5-fid. Jerry ovoid, indehiscent about 2 c.n. long, 

 usually containing several seeds. 



Descrijjtion of the v/ood 



Sapwood thick, very light brown or nearly white v/hen 

 green; heartwood darker and tinged with yellow. Jood hard, 

 heavy, strong, straight and very fine-grained, taking a 

 high polish, and durable in contact with soil, innual rings 

 of growth not visible even under high power microscope. 



Pores 4-t^ane-verse section) numerous, moderately large 

 (.19 mm. in diameter), round open in sapwood, closed with 

 dark yellowish tyloses in heartwood, and arranged usually 

 singly though occasionally in short rows of 3 to 4 radially 

 much flattened pores. Vessel v/alls (-iong-itudiHal section) 

 where in contact with pith rays aiid wood-parenchyna bear 

 numerous small simple or sometimes slightly bordered pits. 

 Large simple pits are sometimes j..re3ent on the radial walls, 

 x-erf orations simple. .;00d fibers about 1.86 mm. lor^g , with 

 very thick v;alls and almost cbliterated cell cavities; 

 fibers arranged irregularly; pits very small and simple. 

 iVood-parenchyma highly developed forming tangential lines 

 which alternate v;ith much denser and slightly broader layers 

 of wood fibers. The isolated vessels are invariably within 

 the layers of this softer tissue. These two kinds of 

 layers may be readily distinguished under the hand lens on 

 a smooth transverse section by the fact that the wood-pa- 

 j-enchyma has much thinner cell walls and larger lumi na . 



