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i'endler*s (Jrias 



Grias j'endleri oee/narui. Jot. Voy, Herald .126. 1854 



Description of the tree 



Entirely glabrous, 8 to 12 a. hl^h and up to 85 cm. in 

 diameter, the trunk divided almost from the base, the limbs 

 erect, the baric gray and smooth. Leaves mostly on new 'vcod, 

 densely fasciculate, sessile, obovate-^lliptic , lon^j' atte- 

 nuate at the base, acute at the a^^ex, £5 to 65 cm. long, 

 4 to 11 cm. broad, entire or obscurely serrate toward the 

 a^^ex , the costa and primary veins prominent on both faces. 

 Inflorescence oauline, raceraose, with a very short rachis. 

 i"loy/ers small for the family, the j^.edicels 5 to 7 mm. long, 

 with one minute basal bractlet; calyx ovoid, about 6 mm. 

 long and 5 mia. in diameter, the Icoules 4, ojtuse, with a 

 black margin; petals 4, concave, ovate-elliptic, white, 12 

 to 14 m;:a. long-, 9 or 10 mm. broad; androphor cup-shax^ed, 

 white, 7/ith numerous staminodes; anthers sessile or subaessile; 

 ovary ovoid-turbinate, 4-celled, the cells pluri-cvulate ; 

 stigma subsessile, 4-lobulate. Pyxi^^ai 1-celied, l-seeded, 

 ovoid, green without, about 3 cm. long and 2.5 cm. in dia- 

 meter, the i^eduncle about 1 cm. long-; seed ovoid, hanging 

 from the apex of the cell. 



Descrii^tion of the wood 



Sapwood thick and yello'i-vish white; heartwood brownish 

 yellow often discolored. .7ood moderately ha*d , heavy, not 

 strong, brittle, straight-grained and resembling somewhat 

 that of oak in radial section on account oi the numerous 

 and ^uite conspicuous pith rays. Annual rings of growth 

 not visible under hand lens or comj.;Ound microscope. 



Pores (transverse section^ rather numerous, small, about 

 • 15 mm. in diameter) , round or irregular, Ojjen at least in 

 sapwood, and arranged singly or more often forming small 

 irregular groups and short radial rows of from tw4 to four. 

 Vessel wall (longitudinal section) very thin and with nume- 

 rous rather large irregular bordered pits wi-i^h small round 



