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rounded-depressed spreading crown, the bark grayish, smooth, 

 the branchlets, leaves and inflorescences all glabrous. 

 Leaves subcoriaceoas, the petioles sulcate, slender, 8 to 14 

 mm. long, the blades elliptic or elliptio-oblong, cuneate at 

 the base, long acuminate, 10 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 4.5 cm. 

 broad, often lustrous on both faces and paler on the infe- 

 rior one; oosta prominent on both sides, veins few, distant, 

 interreticulate and anastomosed. 



Inflorescence cymose-panniculate, axillary or terminal; 

 eymes more or less regularly dichotomous, many flowered, 

 about equal to the leaves or shorter. Calyx 5.5 mm. long, 

 tubulous-campanulate, obscurely 10-sulcate, 3-toothed, the 

 teeth ovate, 1- or 2-apiculate; corolla white, the tube 

 funnel-shaped, about 5.5 mm. long, the Icbes ovate, obtuse, 

 reflexed and not contiguous; stamens inserted at the corolla- 

 throat, exserted, the filaments villous at the base, the 

 anthers deeply emarginate at the base, with the connective 

 apiculate; pistil 5.5 mm. long, the ovary globose, the style 

 bifid, each part dividing again in 2 branchlets each of which 

 ends in a clavate stigma, ii'rait not known. \ 



Deacription of the wood 



Sapv/ood thick, light yellowish or nearly white; heart- 

 wood slightly darker. Wood rather soft, light, tough, mode- 

 rately coarse and cross-grained, not easily worljed and not 

 durable in contact with the soil. Annual rings of growth 

 not visible under the high power microscope. 



Pores few, large (.1 mm. in diameter), round, open in 

 spawood, closed in heartwood, arranged singly or occasionally 

 in pairs or small groups. Vessels ( iaiigitudinal section) 

 with numerous small simple, bordered and transversely elon- 

 gated pits. Perforations simple. »Vood fibers about .9485 

 mm. long, with moderately thick walls and small lumina . 

 vVood-parenchyma fibers strongly developed and arranged in 

 nuiiierous inconspicuous tangential lines, alternating with 

 much wider bands of wood fibers. /.'ood-parenchy.Tia fibers 

 invariably surrcund vessels. Kays numerous and quite cons- 

 picuous under the hand lens, from 3 to 6 cells wide and from 

 4 to 8 times as hiprh. i 



