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of the foliage-bud persisting for several years. Branchlets 
stout completely enwrapped in a rufous or cinnamon-brown 
woolly indumentum which persists for several years becoming 
grey or black, densely leafy, three to five leaves crowning each 
annual growth. Foliage-buds oblong fusiform pointed; outer 
persistent scale-leaves about 9 mm. long and 2.5 mm. broad 
woody lanceolate from the base or elongated triangular or 
subelliptic or oblong tailed-acuminate nearly glabrous inside, 
densely tomentose outside with white woolly hairs, margin ciliate, 
tail enwrapped in white tomentum; inner scale-leaves mem- 
branous about 1.8 cm. long and 2 mm. broad, strap-shaped acute 
or obtuse with a blunt rounded mucro, outside more or less 
clad with white tomentose hairs, around the mucro rufously 
tomentose, margin ciliate ; young foliage-leaves revolute, upper 
surface white with caducous long curled branched hairs. Leaves 
petiolate as much as 5.5 cm. long; lamina lanceolate or slightly 
oblanceolate about 5 cm. long by 1.3 cm. broad, apex obtuse or 
somewhat acute ending in a tuberculate mucro, margin strongly 
recurved, tapered gradually to the base; upper surface dark- 
green opaque shagreened glabrescent, midrib grooved, groove 
lined more or less by vestigial hairs, primary veins about 10-12 
on each side slightly grooved ; under surface with slightly promi- 
nent midrib, rest of venation concealed by a thick persistent bi- 
strate woolly indumentum ferruginous—(or dark umber-coloured 
from penetration by fungi)—under stratum of rosette-hairs 
stalked and with broad thin-walled short vesicular branches, 
upper stratum of hairs with a long axis freely branching its cells 
thin-walled and curling intertwining ; petiole about 5 mm. long 
enwrapped by indumentum like the stem. Flowers arranged in 
a 6-flowered terminal umbel, the pedicels encircled by the inner 
cucullate if not by the outer bracts ; outer bracts like the outer 
scale-leaves of foliage-bud only larger, inner bracts (fertile ones) 
membranous yellow spathulate truncate or obtuse cucullate 
persistente demum cinerascente, alabastrorum perulis exterioribus interioribusque 
persistentibus dense vestiti. Folia petiolata ad 5.5 cm. longa ; rasse 
ta; sup rescens ; subtus cinna- 
momeo-tomentosa, tomento persistente bistrato, strati superi pilis elongatis multi- 
ramosis curvatis intertextis, strati inferi 
brevibus ; petiolus d 
plus minusve i 
xtus floccoso-tomentosus, 5-lobus 
lobi floccoso-ciliati. Corolla rosea sparsim maculata tubuloso-campanu 
3-7 cm. longa intus puberula, 5-loba ; lobi rotundati emarginati. Stamina 10 
inaequalia corolla breviora ; filamenta puberula. Discus puberulus. Gynaeceum 
circ. 2.7 cm. longum corolla brevius staminibus longius; ovarium ovoideum trun- 
catum circ. 3.5 mm. longum indumento pallide roseo e pilis longis constructo dense 
vestitum, eglandulosum ; stylus glaber 
