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with a smooth, reddish or grayish bark, the crov/n sparse and 

 irregular, I Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ej;stipulate; petio- 

 les thick, 4 to 5 mm, long; leafblades ovate-elliptic, mere 

 or less emarginate at the base, abruptly short acuminate, 14 

 to 25 cm. long, 5 to 11 cm. broad, light green above, paler 

 beneath. Flcwers axillary, single or clustered; j.e'iiGels 

 slender, 12 to 15 mru. long, bearing at the middle cne pair 

 of small bractlets, these clasping, ovate-acute, persistent, 

 about 2 min. long; receptacle funnel- shaped, longer than the 

 ovary, sepals 5, ovate-triangular, acute, about 6 ;am. long, 

 coriaceous, caducous; petals 5, reflexed, irregularly ovate, 

 about 11 m;n, long, 9 mm. broad, unguiculate, apiculate, the 

 margin irregularly denticulate or lacerate; stamens 10, in- 

 serted on the margin of the rece^^tacle, alternately opposed 

 to petals and se^^als, the filaments slender, about 10 ram. 

 long, the anthers basifixed, intrcrse, v/ith a pore on the 

 ventral side and 4 small glands near the apex; ovary inferior, 

 5-Gelled, each cell 4 or 5-ovulate; style truncate, about 

 7.5 ram. long, i'ruit dry, 4 to 1-celled, globose, more or 

 less de^^ressed, crowned with the persistent calyx; cells 1- 

 seeded; seeds ovoid, about 11 mm. long, 



Description of the v/ood 



Sapwood thin, light yellow or nearly white; heartv;ood 

 slightly darker, ./cod exceedingly hard, heavy, strong, tough, 

 straight and fine-grained, difficult to work and tailing a 

 good polish. Annual riiigs of growth not visible under high 

 power micrt)ScOije . 



Pores f-t^a+isverse seirtlcn) rather nu-aerous, very small 

 (.063 am. in diameter), round, open in sapv/ood and clcsed in 

 heartvvood, and usually arranged singly, less cften in pairs. 

 Vessel v/alls (longitudinal soctlcn:) with numerous, 2mall 

 bordered pits, v/ith transitions to simple pits. Perforations 

 simple, V/ood fibers about .9f^ mm. long, with very thick 

 walls and almost no lumina ; ^jits small and simple. ,;ood 

 parenchyma is ^.resent only surrounding vessels, v/here it 

 forms short rows extending tangentially from both sides of 

 the vessel for a short distance. Hays very numerous and 

 narrow, from 1 to 3 cells wide, and from 3 to 5 times as 

 high. 



