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arcuate upwards, 6—10 on each side; veinlets delicate; petiole |— 7 

 cm. long, narrowly winged by the decurrent portion of the blade 

 above, thinly puberulent ; stipules subulato-deltoid, or ovato- 

 deltoid, viridescent, shortly bifid at the apex, or deeply biparted 

 into subulato-lanceolate acuminate lobes, entire on margin, thinly 

 pubescent with adpressed hairs dorsally, deciduous, about 6—10 

 mm. long. Cymes compound, medium-sized, terminal, subdense- 

 ly and subnumerouly flowered, peduncled ; rachis and branches 

 short, viridescent, adpressed-pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles 

 membranaceous, deciduous, viridescent ; bracteoles lanceolate, 

 subulato-lanceolate, or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, subserrate 

 (nearly entire) with mucronate minute few teeth, or trifid, 

 thinly pubescent with adpressed hairs externally, about 5-lOmm. 

 long ; bracts oblong-lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 subserrate with mucronate minute few teeth, or trifid, several- 

 or submany- nerved, attaining about 14mm. long. Flowers 

 very shortly pedicellate ; pedicel stout, pubescent, about 1— 4mm. 

 long in flower. Sepals large, about § as long as the corolla, erect- 

 patent, viridescent, lanceolate, finely acuminate, entire, ciliated, 

 puberulent on both sides, membranaceous, about 5-nerved, 

 10-14mm. long, about 2Jmm. long, deciduous ; one of them 

 often very enlarged and foliaceous (phyllomorpha), petaloid, 

 white, often greenish towards the upper margin, nervate, 

 stipitate, oval, ovato-oval, oval-obovate, subrhombeo-oval, or 

 subrhombeo-orbicular, broadly cuneate towards the base, acutish 

 or obtuse or rounded at the apex, entire, membranaceous, ciliat- 

 ed, puberulent on veins on both surfaces, ver\^ thinly puberulent 

 below on the under surface, 2-5|cm. long, lj-4cm. broad, 

 about 5-nerved ; veins loosely anastomosing ; stipe angustate, 

 straight, viridescent, thinly pubescent with adpressed hairs, 

 about 5-12mm. long. Corolla about 16mm. long ; tube 



cylindrical, enlarged above, pale, about 12mm. long, densely 

 pubescent with adpressed sericeous hairs externally but densely 

 pilose with erect-patent long yellow hairs on the upper-half 

 internally and the upper hairs slighth^ cxserted on the throat ; 

 limb 5-parted, patent, deep-yellow, about 12mm. across ; seg- 

 ments oval-ovate, cuspidate, entire, sericeo-pubescent and pubes 



