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glands and a few floccose reddening twisted hairs. Foliage-bud 
large elongated oveid ; outer scale-leaves more or less rounded 
or elliptic or oblong-oval glossy inside, glandular (red glands) 
and densely covered with branched sticky reddening hairs out- 
side, margin gland-ciliate; innermost scale-leaves spathulate 
from a narrow base about 5 cm. long and 1 cm. broad at top, 
clad like the outer ones ; young foliage-leaves revolute, on both 
surfaces clad with red clavate glands and stiffly radiating 
branched floccose hairs. Leaves as much as 14.5 cm. long 
petiolate; lamina leathery about 12 cm. long 4 cm. broad 
oblong, apex slightly narrowed into a beak with an apiculus 
I.5 mm. long, margin cartilaginous slightly recurved, base 
broadly obtuse or rounded ; upper surface pale green opaque, 
surface smooth with a few flocks and vestiges of others and of 
red glands, midrib grooved groove sparingly lined by floccose 
hairs and glands, primary veins about 14 on each side almost 
hidden; under surface pale cinnamon-brown clad with bistrate 
indumentum, the upper layer of brown detaching floccose hairs 
each with a short stalk and several diverging pointed branches, 
the lower stratum below the hairs of red clavate short glands on 
a pale mat-green surface, midrib broad elevated slightly pinkish 
sparingly floccose, primary veins paler slightly prominent ; 
petiole stout about 2.5 cm. long, grooved above more or less 
coated with floccose red-brown hairs also glandular, glabrescent. 
Inflorescence shortly racemosely umbellate about 10-flowered, 
thachis barely 1 cm. long sparsely glandular and floccose ; fertile 
bracts papery oblong or obovate-oblong cucullate as much as 
2.5 cm. long 1 cm. broad outside and inside densely sericeous 
or lanate the hairs white curling; bracteoles claviform about 
1.2 cm. long densely whitely hairy hair-crested eglandular ; 
pedicels stout diverging, as much as 3 cm. long, more or less 
glandular (glands red shortly-stalked) and sparingly floccose. 
Calyx about 3 mm. long; cup glandular outside 5-lobed to 
beyond middle ; lobes membranous broad ovate obtuse spar- 
ingly glandular outside densely gland-fringed. Corolla openly 
campanulate rose-pink marked posteriorly by a+few crimson 
alabastra subglutinosa, foliis juvenilibus revolutis utrinque glandulosis et floccosis. 
Folia ad 14.5 cm. longa; lamina ad 4 cm. lata coriacea apice paullo attenuata 
subrostrata, basi late obtusa vel rotundata; s andu 
floccorumque notata; infra cinnamomea indumento bistrato detersili pilorum 
rosulatorum obtecta; petiolus ad 2.5 cm. longus glabrescens. Inflorescentia 
racemoso-umbellata circ. 10-flora; bracteae extus intusque lanato-pubescentes ; 
glandulosum ; stylus glandulosus. 
