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mm. long, 20 mm. wide ; the bark is 10 mm. in thickness on 

 branches 40 mm. diameter ; young twigs green, pubescent, 

 become glabrous, white and shiny. 



Leaves very variable in position and size ; usually oppo- 

 site, sometimes sub-opposite or alternate, often crowded at 

 end of twig, 40-140 mm. long, 15-70 mm. wide, (on 

 suckers the leaves are often 240 mm. long and 100 mm. 

 wide), oblong-oval, rounded or obtuse apex, tapering base, 

 pubescent when young, glabrous and shiny when old. 

 under-surf aces duller green than upper ; venation reticulate, 

 meshes wide, pellucid ; lateral veins not very conspicuous 

 above, prominent below ; petiole green, glabrous or hairy, 

 flat above, 4 mm. diameter, 15 mm. long. 



Male inflorescence usually consists of a dichasial cyme. 

 3-7-flowered, similar to that described for D. sylvatica, D. 

 Toposia, &c., and occurs in lower part of young shoot in 

 axil of leaf or caducous bract ; sometimes the lateral flowers 

 do not arise in opposite pairs but at different levels suggest- 

 ing a racemose type. (See pi. VIII., fig. 8). 



When the inflorescence is represented by a central flower 

 only, the bracteoles are nevertheless present ; the flowers 

 which should occur in the axil of bracteoles in the plane of 

 the antero-posterior axis are commonly absent. 



The main peduncle is pubescent, 3-11 mm. long, 2 mm. 

 diameter ; pedicels of first pair of lateral flowers longer than 

 those of second pair and measure 15 mm. in length and 2 

 mm. in diameter ; bracts and bracteoles long, pubescent, 

 size gradually decreasing from bract to youngest bracteole. 



Male flowers in bud are green, pubescent, 5 mm. long, 

 3 mm. diameter ; open flower 13 mm. long ; there is much 

 variation in the number and orientation of the members of 

 accessory whorls and stamens. 



Calyx yellowish-green, pubescent, campanulate, 5-8 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. diameter, occasionally very email ; segments 

 3-6 and accrescent, apex acute, 1*5-3 mm. in length. 



Corolla yellowish-white, narrow-throated, outside covered 

 with silky hairs. 12 mm. long, 3 mm. diameter : segments 



