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slender, smooth, black when dry, the uppermost rusty-tomentose as 
are the innovations. Leaves membrano-chartaceous, alternate ; 
broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate at apex, cordate 
at base sometimes unequally ; upper surface smooth, shining, glab- 
rous except on the nerves, lower rusty-tomentose, dark reddish- 
brown when dry ; 10—17 cm. long, 6—10 cm. broad ; midrib slender 
above and channelled, stouter below; main nerves 10—14 pairs, 
impressed above, raised beneath, the lowest 1—2 pairs curved 
downwards and then up, the rest at 50°—70° with the midrib at 
first straight then curved to near the margin where they fade away 
in diminishing loops; transverse nervules prominent, straight or 
slightly curved, sometimes branched, enclosing the minutely areolate 
reticulation ; petiole rather slender, 10—25 mm. long, often rugose. 
Flowers in umbellules on slender peduncles 7—10 mm. long in 
3 ,4—5 mm.in 92, inslender puberulous axillary erect or drooping 
racemes reaching to 16 cm. long in ¢@, barely 10 cm. in 2? ; rhachis 
angled; raceme bracts small, ovate, tomentose, 1—2 mm. long, 
caducous; umbellules 7—8 mm. in diam. when open; involucral 
bracts 5, slightly puberulous without, glabrous within, the outer 
3 orbicular concave, the inner 2 obovate and much smaller ; flowers in 
each umbellule 6, on very short golden-villous pedicels ; perianth 
tube short, long-pilose within, lobes 6, oblong, obtuse or acute, 
glabrous except for a few long pilose hairs on the back, ¢ 3and 2? 2 
mm. long, gland-dotted, those of @ early deciduous. Stamens of 
& flowers 12, those of the outer rows 3 mm.long with ovate anthers 
and slender filaments bearing long pilose hairs in tufts near the base, 
those of the inner rows similar but shorter with a pair of large 
oblong sessile glands a little above the bases of the filaments; 
rudimentary ovary ovoid, thickly pilose with twisted style and 
capitate stigma. Staminodes of 2 flowers also normally 12, some- 
times fewer in inner rows, those of the outer rows clavate about 
1 mm. long, the filaments bearing a tuft of pilose golden hairs as 
in 3, those of the inner rows subulate, scarcely shorter, with a pair 
of large oblong subsessile glands a little above the base. Ovary 
ovoid, apparently glabrous; style thick, curved; stigma peltate, 
lobed. Fruit oblong, acute, glossy dark red when fresh, black when 
dry, up to 2 cm. long, 9 mm. broad, seated on the slightly enlarged 
perianth-tube, which at first is somewhat cup-shaped enclosing the 
base of the fruit, afterwards slightly obconic, spreading and 
flattened, about 5 mm. in diam., the margins smooth; enlarged 
pedicel about 1 cm. long; pericarp smooth, thin; cotyledons semi- 
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