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like a golf-club, the lowermost scale-leaves persisting for some 
time, fringed with short soft white hairs and slightly scaly 
down the back, the intermediate scale-leaves early falling off, 
with one or two of the upper ones persisting for some time 
below the young leaves. Leaves rather broadly elliptic, rounded 
at both ends or shortly triangular-acuminate at the apex 
6-11 cm. long, 3-5.5 cm. broad, rigidly coriaceous, lepidote 
above when young and ciliate, but soon becoming quite glabrous, 
shining and reticulate, glaucous and rather densely lepidote 
below, the scales ferruginous, unequal in size and less than 
their own diameter apart, the larger ones scattered, the epi- 
dermis densely clothed between the scales with rod-like papillae ; 
petioles about 7 mm. long or less, rather flattened on the upper 
surface and grooved, fairly densely lepidote. Inflorescence 
apparently 2-flowered, the pedicels supported on a softly tomen- 
tose “foot ’’ (above the scars of the scales) from which they 
disarticulate; scars of the fallen bud-scales rather lax and 
ladder-like with lepidote portions of the branchlet visible 
between; pedicels 1 cm. long, densely lepidote. Calyx very 
small, oblique, with an undulate margin, scaly outside and 
on the margin, not ciliate. Corolla white, yellow inside the 
base (Forrest), somewhat narrowly funnel-shaped from the base 
upwards, rather laxly scaly all over the outside ; tube as long 
as the lobes, 4-4.5 cm. long, about 5 mm. in diameter at the 
base, and 5 cm. broad at the top when flattened out, softly 
pubescent towards the base ; lobes oblong-orbicular, crenulate, 
2.5-3 cm. broad. Stamens 10, unequal, the longest reaching 
to about the middle of the lobes; filaments densely and softly 
pilose in their lower half or third; anthers 5-6 mm. long. 
Ovary 5-celled, 7 mm. long, densely lepidote; style curved, 
mollibus albidis barbatis, squamis intermediis mox caducis, paucis superiori- 
bus subpersistentibus. Folia late elliptica, utrinque rotundata vel apice triangu- 
lari-acuminata, 6-11 cm. longa, 3—5.5 cm. lata, rigide coriacea juventute supra 
—- et ciliata, mox glabra, ni nitida ae cenersieapepe infra glauca et a 
lepido ntibus, 
epidermide amet papillosa ; petioli circiter 7 mm. longi vel minores, supra sub- 
complan Inflorescentia terminalis, ut videtur 
biflora, phon in pedem molliter tomentosum insertis ab eo disarticulatis ; 
cicatrices squamarum delapsarum laxae et scalariformes; pedicelli r cm. longi, 
dense lepidoti. Calyx minimus, obliquus, extra et margine undulato ny ered 
eciliatus. Corolla alba, intra basin flava (Forrest), e basi paullo anguste in 
buliformis, extra ubique laxe lepidota ; tubus lobis aequalis, 4—4.5 cm. oe 
basi circiter 5 mm. diametro, apice (sicco et complanato) 5 cm. latus, basin versus 
molliter pubescens ; lobi oblongo-orbicu culares, crenulati, 2.5-3 cm. lati. Stamina 
10, inaequalia, usque ad corollae loborum medium extensa ; filamenta in triente 
vi dimidio inferiore dense et molliter pilosa ; antherae 5-6 mm. i 
circiter 3.5 mm. lato coronatus. Capsula non visa. 
