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obductos continuati glabrati, crassiusculi (diametro 7™), cortice 
plicato-rugoso cinereo; folia alterna, impari-pinnata, ad apices 
ramulorum conferta, novella ad petiolos rhachesque necnon 
subtus margineque et praesertim infima rudimentaria perulas 
pinnatilobas exhibentia lana densa ferruginea fugaci e pilis longi- 
articulatis pauciramosis vel fasciculato-stellatis contexta induta 
necnon, ut et adultiora, pilis albidis breviarticulatis in cellulam 
elongatam acutam terminatis aliisque unicellularibus adpresse 
adspersa, adulta (petiolo 4™ longo adjecto circ. 24™ longa, 10-12™ 
lata) ad axillas exsudationes gummosas interdum foventas, rhachi 
nuda pubescente, stipulis nullis; foliola subopposita, 6~-8-juga, 
membranacea, penninervia, ex ovato oblonga, intermedia majora 
(6.5 longa, 2.5™ lata), acuta, basi inaequali subsessilia, margine 
hyalino subintegerrima, vix nisi inferiora paucicrenata, in sinubus 
glandula interna oleipara pellucida magna instructa, insuper 
subtus juxta nervum medianum hincinde glandulis superficialibus 
scutatis (quas nectaria extranupitalia vocant) notata et glandulis 
parvis numerosissimis per staurenchyma et pneumatenchyma 
dissitis dense minutim pellucidopunctata, necnon glandulis 
lepidoideis parenchymaticis foveolis insidentibus (aegrius per- 
spiciendis) supra subtusque adspersa, epidermide non mucigera; 
flores (masculi tantum suppetebant) in paniculas ad apices ramu- 
lorum inter folia novella (6—-10™ longa) interjectas (subaequi- 
longas) lanoso-pilosas densifloras corymboso-cymosas in poly- 
chasia capituliformia basi dichasia gerentia desinentes congestl, 
breviter pedicellati, pedicellis basi bracteolarum loco saepissime 
flores rudimentarios gerentibus; perianthii foliola 9-10, linearia 
(2-3™ longa), alia (plus minus conspicue exteriora et sepalis 
respondentia) breviora et angustiora, alia (subinteriora, reliquis 
subalterna) longiora et paullulo latiora, omnia tenuiter mem- 
branacea, flavidula, pilis glandulisque raris lepidoideis adspetsa, 
glandulis internis punctata; staminum vestigia nulla; discus 
gynophorus brevis, glaber; pistillum monomerum, disco insidens 
(vix 3™") ; germen (1™™ vix superans) gibboso-obovatum, dorse 
convexum, ventre recto (floris partem posteriorem spectante ) = 
stylum sublateralem (paullo longiorem) filiformem continuatum, — 
