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Petiole. — Slender, sheathing at the base. 

 Ietiolule. — Slender, short. 



Note that the petioles, petiolules, and leaves are all articulated at 



base. — (Baillon). 

 Stipules. — Absent ; glands instead, linear, hairy, stalked. These 

 glands are sometimes also found at the origin of the petiolules and 

 leaflets. 

 INFLORESCENCE.— Axillary : in numerous panicled racemes ; 

 spreading at the ends of branches. Baillon says that the inflorescence 

 " consists of very numerous flowers in much ramified racemes of 

 cymes/' 



Bracts. — Linear, shorter than pedicels. 

 ^Estivation.— Slightly imbricate. 



FLOWERS. — Very numerous, rather large ; white, yellowish-white, 

 or reddish-white ; irregular, hermaphrodite, pedicelled, 1 inch in 

 diameter, honey-scented ; pedicels 6 to 8 lines long. Baillon observes 

 that " the receptacle of the flower is cup-shaped, lined by a glandular 

 disk with a prominent free border; on its oblique mouth are supported 

 the perianth and androecium, while the gynoecium springs from the 

 bottom." (" Natural History of Plants," Vol. Ill, 1874). 

 CALYX.— Cup-shaped, 5-cleft. 



Sepals. — Distinctly petaloid, unequal, linear-lanceolate, reflexed, 

 deciduous ; sometimes tinged pink and white, sometimes greenish- 

 white. Baillon observes that " the prsefloration of the sepals is 

 quincuncial." (Vide Supplementary Plate L.) The five alternating 

 petals are usually of cochlear-imbricate praefloration. The anterior, 

 internal in the bud, and differing in form slightly from the 

 rest, remaining erect on anthesis, while they become reflexed on 

 the receptacle like sepals. 

 COROLLA. — Petals free, 5, unequal, linear, narrowly spathulate ; 

 according to Hooker the upper petals are smaller. Lindley describes 

 them as " ascending ;" the lateral petals are ascending ; the anterior 

 are larger. Le Maout and Decaisne describe the petals as follows :— 

 (l Five inserted on the calyx, linear, oblong, the two posterior (the 

 italics are mine. — K.R.K.), rather the longest, ascending, imbricate in 

 bud." 



