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chartaceo-coriaceous, smooth, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, entire, tapering towards the apex and base, 
glaucescent on the under surface, 2-5 inches long, $-14 inches broad ; petiloles 3 lines to t inch long. Scales 
of the leaf-bud imbricate, semicircular, smooth on both ‘surfaces, minutely ciliate at the margin. Panicles 
terminal. Flowers numerous, slightly yellowish, about 3 lines across; pedicels smooth, 14-2 lines long. Perianth- 
segments 6, in 2 series, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly hairy, the inner 3 somewhat larger than the 
outer 3, 14-2 lines long. Stamens o, in 3 series, about as long“as the perianth-segments ; the first and third 
series alternate with, and the second opposite to the (Gres perianth-secment ; filaments somewhat subulate, 
hairy at the base; anthers 4—celled, opening by uplifted valves, the upper 2 cells- smaller than the 
lower 2. Stamens of the first and second series without glandular appendages, their anthers introrse; those 
of the third series with a pair of deeply cordate and stalked glands at the base of each, their aithers extrorse. 
Staminodes or imperfect stamens of the fourth series 3, opposite the stamens of the second series, consisting 
of deeply cordate and stalled glands, hairy at the Base and apex, shorter than the stamens. Ovary i I- 
celled, ovoid; style filiform; stigma capitate, slightly 3-lobed, ovule 1, pendulous, anatropous. Berry globose, 
‘with the peristent and deflexed perianth-segments at the base, dark, about 5 lines across. Seed large, 
aromatic, exalbumimous; testa thin; cotyledons hemispherical, filling the seed; plumule conspicuous.—F1. 
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