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petiole, entire and the margin not recurved in recent, coriace- 

 ous, glabrous, shinning and green above, pale-green beneath, 

 2— 4icm. long, l-2cm. wide ; midrib angustately prominent 

 beneath when dried, but nearly not prominent on both surfaces 

 in recent excepting the base beneath ; vains inconspicuoiis ; 

 about 5-9 on each side, erect-patent ; petiole 4-lOmm. long, 

 semiterete with obtuse edges, very scarcely canaliculate in front, 

 very shortly pulverulent-puberulent under lens. Stipule very 

 shortly pulverulent-puberulent under lens. Stipule very minute, 

 subulate or deltoid. Male flower.— Inflorescences small, about 

 8— 9mm. long, peduncled, approximately placed on the base, 

 portion of the axillary ramules, which are issued from the 

 apical portion of branchlets, or fasciculated at the axil of leaves 

 when the ramtiles very much shortened ; bracts minute, 

 depressed-semiorbicular and subtrilobed, thickish, thinly puberu- 

 lent, ciliated, subtend peduncle ; bracteoles minute, deltoid, 

 acute, thick, very minutely puberulent, ^Jmm. long ; 2nd. bracte- 

 oles very minute, deltoid-subulate, often placed at the base of 

 pedicels and 2 in number, opposite. Peduncle about 1—4, erect- 

 patent, strict, compressed, very minutely puberulent, about 

 3-6mm. long ; pedicels 5-7, umbellate, erect-patent, straight, 

 slightly shorter than the peduncles, 2J-3mm. long, very 

 minutely puberulent with patent short hairs. Flower about 



4mm. across, white. Calyx short, wide-campanulate, 



about IJmm. across, 1mm. long, obtuse at the base, 

 thickish towards the base, minutel}^ ciliated, transversely 

 subrugose below and minutely puberulent externally, 4-lobed ; 

 lobes suberect or erect-patent, shorter than the tube, depressed- 

 ovate, rounded or acutish at the apex, suberose on margin. 

 Corolla 4-parted, glabrous ; tube very short, broad ; lobes 

 patent and rotate, then more or less reflexed, elliptical, rounded 

 and sometimes crenate at the apex, entire, concave internally, 

 about 2mm. long, IJmm. broad, 1— nerved with loose and few 

 pinnate veinlets. Stamens 4, erect or erect-patent, inserted at 

 the throat and at the sinuses, alternate with the corolla-lobes, 

 glabrous, equal to or very scarcely shorter than the corolla 

 lobes in length ; filament subulate, slightlj^ longer than the 



