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patent, 3— fasciculate, articulated below, thinly pilose, 1—2 mm. 

 long ; bract small, erect-patent, subulate, subulato-lanceolate, 

 lanceolate, or deltoid-subulate, long-acuminate, patently piloso- 

 ciliated, 3—4 mm. long ; bracteoles slightly smaller than bracts, 

 subulate or deltoid-subulate, caudato-acuminate, patently 

 piloso-ciliated, erect-patent, slightly longer or shorter than the 

 pedicel, about 2-3 mm. long, persistent. Flower-bud shortly 

 terete. Flowers yellow, sub-irregular, 4|-6 mm. across. 



Sepals 5, patent or recurvo-patent, oblong-linear or broadly 

 linear, slightly broader below, entire, valvate, concave in- 

 ternally, very thinly pilose with erect-patent or spreading 

 simple hairs or glabrous dorsally, incurved and with an erect 

 spinulose apiculate process (i— f mm. long) under the tip, 

 herbaceous-membranaceous, longitudinally several-veined (3 of 

 them stronger), more or less anastomosing with veinlets be- 

 tween veins, about 4— 4J mm. long except the process, 1 mm. 

 broad, deciduous. Petals 5, spreading, slightly shorter than 

 the sepals and alternate with them, obovato-oblong, cuneately 

 attenuated below, hardly clawed and softly ciliated in the 

 basal portion, rounded or sub-emarginate at apex, entire, 

 thinly membranaceous, delicately and loosely veined, 3| mm. 

 long, f-li mm. wide, deciduous. Stamens 10, erect, inserted 

 near the disk at the top of the gynophore, slightly exserted 

 on or slightly lower than the petals, slightly longer than 5 of 

 oppositipetalous in the oppositisepalous 5, 2f-3J mm. long ; 

 filaments filiform, glabrous, 1— nerved ; anther introrse, elliptic- 

 al, bifid on both ends, dorsifixed, J mm. long ; anther-cells 

 oblong. Gynophore very short, thick, glabrous, } mm. long, 

 with small rounded depressed oppositipetalous 5 glands on 

 the lateral face, and with a membranaceous dilated finely 

 ciliated shallowly cupuliform disk at the top. Ovary globose, 

 about |— | mm. across, sessile, densely and apressedly im- 

 bricated, 4-celled, 2— ovuled in each cell ; style 1, about equal 

 to stamens in height, erect, terminal, glabrous, slenderly terete ; 

 stigma 4-divided into erect-patent subulate lobes. Capsules 

 several-glomerate, shortly pedicellate, about 6 mm. across 

 except the spines, globose, thinly hairy, covered with long 



