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bark gray, more or less shaggy, _ Leaves alterna"be, glabrous, 

 subcoriaceous, the i^etioles 6 to 9 cm. loiig, narrowly sul- 

 cate, the blades oblong lanceolate, 12 to Z8 ca. long, 6 to 

 9.5 ca. broad, acuminate, i'loral racemes terminal, simple 

 or branched, few-flowered, glabrous, shorter than the leaves; 

 pedicels 1 cm. long more or less; sepals 6, ovate to ellip- 

 tic, 7 ram. long, obtase cr subacuminate; ^^ eta Is 5, narrow, 

 elliptic, about 10 rnm. long white; stamens 28, free or al- 

 most so, glabra te, nearly 6 mm. iong, the filaments Exhort, 

 the anthers basifix, emarginate at the apex; pistil about 

 7 mm. long, the ovary softly echinate, pubescent, 1-celled, 

 the many ovules inserted on 3 parietal ijlacentas; style 

 slender, pubescent at the base, obscurely ^-lobulijte at 

 the apex. Capsule subglobose, echinate, 1-celled, dehis- 

 cent, about 1 cm. in diameter, the ^.edicels about 1,5 cm. 

 long, the seeds 1 to 4, ovoid. 



■description of the wood 



Sapwood thick, nearly white; heartwcod light yellowish. 

 Wood hard, moderately heavy, more cr less brittle, very 

 close-grained, taking a fairly good polish. Anjiual rings 

 of growth not visible even under high power microscope. 



xcres numerous, ^saall { ,06 mm, in dia.ieter) , rcund cr 

 tadially compressed, open, and arranged in radial rows of 

 from a few tc 4 or more. Vessel walls with num<irou3 sim- 

 ple or bordered ^jits, or sometimes one-sided bordered pits 

 where they are in contact v/ith pith-ray cells and wood-^a- 

 ranohyma fibers, -''reouently large transversely elongated 

 simple pits j^resent. iind walls of vessel segments chiefly 

 wholly absorbed, or in the neighborhood of the pith these 

 Openings have scdlariform bars from 5 to 6. ,/ood fibers 

 about 1,47 mm. loiig '.vith relatively thick walls, small cell 

 cavities and x^rominent partition v/alls; the pits are 

 slightly bordered with small transverse slit-like openings. 

 The wood-parenchyma fibers resemble the wood fibers in trans- 

 verse section except that they have slightly thinner walls, 

 There ore from 1 to 4r rows of wood fibers between the tows 

 of wood-pa renchJ^ma fibers and the latter consist of a 

 great man^'- cells, frequently from 20 to 40. Pith rays narrow, 

 barely visible under hand lens on smooth transverse section, 

 from 1 to 4 cells wide and from 20 to ?0 times as high. 



