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leviter striati; basi articulatim incrassati, fusco-rufescentes, papulis numerosis 
parumper elevatis sordide flavicantibus obsessi. 
For 4-7-pollicaria, 13-3 poll. lata (arborum juvenilium majora), breviter 
petiolata, alterna, sat approximata, patentia, versus apicem recurvata, hincque 
ob latera sub-conduplicata velut cymbiformia, superne obtuse acuminata, basi 
obtusata. vel interdum perexigue attenuata, integerrima. aut levissime repanda, 
coriacea, rigida, glaberrima, concoloria, nitida, supra inter venas laterales 
arcuatas haud raro convexiuscula, subtus costà venisque reliculatione tenellà 
anastomosantibus longe elevatioribus. Petioli brevissimi, circa 3-4 lin. longi, 
crassiusculi, teretiusculi, basi nodoso-incrassali, ad insertionem utrinque cica- 
trice minut stipulze delapsze ornati. Á 
AwrxrA terminalia, flabellatim conjuncta. vel axillis superioribus solitaria, 
partim stricta , partim arcuato-patentia, gracilia, rachi inferne nudá, totà tomen- 
tosà, incaná; mascula multo numerosiora, magis peripherica, compacta, infra 
medium plerumque in ramulos complures breves longitudine inzequales partita; 
feminea simplicissima, interrupta, ad apicem glomerulis masculinis copiosis 
approximatis, paucioribus vero ad basin instructa, rachi sat rigidà, sursum 
attenuatà. 
Fzonzs wascunt: Perianthium sub-urceolatum, extrinsecus cano-tomentosum, 
sexfidum, laciniis semiovatis obtusis. Stamina 7-10, in perianthii fundo inserta. 
Filamenta longe exserta, subulata, glabra, longitudine sub-inzequalia. Znthere 
parve, sub-rotundz, didymo, fere horizontaliter incumbentes. Corpus ovale, 
sursum densissime villosum, in centro perianthii. 
Fronrs rewixEr singuli ad basin calyculati squamulis plurimis, minutis, tomen- 
'tósis, arcte conferruminatis. Perianthium superum, abbreviatum, utrobique 
tomentosum, ex foliolis circa sex rotundatis, inferne coalitis. l"7]amenta aliquot 
brevia antheris effoetis. Sty]us brevissimus, crassus, pariter ac stigmata tria brevia 
cylindrica erecta infra, sub-villosus. 
Fnvcrvs in rachi valde incrassatá , glabriusculà et verruculosá sessiles, in for- 
mam spice ovalis aut sub-globosz congregati, multis minoribus aborlivis com- 
misti vel connati. Cupule principio sub-globose, squamulis parvis semiovatis 
dorso gibbis tuberculatze ; maturz fere acetabuliformes, in crateriformes ver- 
gentes, vix irientem glandis involventes, squamulis penitus coalitis extus 
quasi tuberculato-tessellatz , intus depressione circulari plano-convexáà. Glandes 
hemisphzricz, supra umbone parvo obtuso adornatz, subtus derasw, disco in 
centro exigue concavo, ad peripheriam foveolato. 
EXPLICATIO TABULJ. 
Ramulus Quzncus glaberrime; magn. nat. 
Fig. 1. Fructus maturi , et folium speciminis adhuc juvenilis ; magn. nat. 
