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basal and apical margins, chartaceo-mcmbranaceous, green 

 and glabrous above, paler and pubescent (pubes denser on the 

 midrib and veins) beneath, 4-14 cm. long, 2\-7 cm. broad ; 

 midrib prominent beneath ; veins slender, 3-6 on each side, 

 erect-patent, arcuate upwards, more with the main veinlets in 

 the external side ; veinlets loose ; petiole narrow, canaliculated 

 in front, thinly pubescent, 4-7 mm. long. Flowers precocious, 

 small, about 2 cm. across, beautifully yellow, solitary in the 

 axil of leaf-scars in the lower portion of the branchlets of last 

 year, opposite but sometimes only one developed, very shortly 

 pedicellate; pedicel about 3mm. long, but about 4mm. long 

 in fruit, covered with perulaj to above the middle but free and 

 crispate in the upper portion, viridescent, glabrous ; peridffi 

 opposite, imbricated, appressed each other, slightly loose above, 

 ascending-erect, glabrous but spreadingly lanato-ciliated on 

 margin, membranaceous, subfragile, concave, often subcarinate 

 dorsally, obtuse, entire, amplexicaule, thicker and denser in 

 texture at the base, l-nerved, marcescent, pale-gilvous ; the lowest 

 the smallest, the lowest 2 semiorbicular or deltoid-semiorbicular, 

 thick, nearly 1 mm. long ; the lower ones depressed-ovate ; the 

 middle ones oval-ovate ; the superior ones elliptical and about 

 3 mm. long. Calyx 4-parted, about 4 mm. long, glabrous, 

 reflexly sublanato-ciliated on margin, green and often shaded 

 with purple above ; segments erect-patent, elliptical-oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, slightly concave, membranaceous, 3 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. broad ; tube shorter than the segments, widely 

 obconical, truncate and umbilicated at the base, about 1 mm. 

 long. Corolla 4-parted, glabrous, membranaceous, deciduous ; 

 segments erect-patent, oblong, obtuse at the apex, entire, 

 delicately sub-many-veined ; tube short, obconical, stoutly 

 12-nerved, about 4 mm. long. Stamens 2, included, inserted 

 to the lower portion of the corolla-tube, erect, about 3| mm. 

 long ; filament narrowly subulate ; anther erect, basifixed, 

 ovato-obiong, mucronato-obtuse at the apex, deeph^ bifid at 

 the base, 2 ram. long. Pistil 1, erect, glabrous ; style exsert- 

 ed, straight, stout-filiform, angustately canaliculate on both 

 sides, gradually thicker towards the ovary, 5 mm. long 



