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shining, umber-avellaneous or pale-gilvous ; branchlets of this 

 year subterete, adpressed-pubescent with erect-patent or re- 

 trorse hairs, or glabrous, viridCvScent but often purple in sun, 

 provided with short broad small perula at the base. Leaves 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, oval, obovate, elliptical, or 

 obovato-oblong, mucronato- obtuse or rounded or sometimes 

 acute at the apex, obtuse or rounded or acute at the base, 

 entire and ciliated with adpressed or subadpressed-ascending 

 pale hairs or subciliated, entirely glabrous or only puberulent 

 on the midrib above, nearly glabrous or thinly adpressed-pilose 

 on the midrib and veins beneath, 2-7^ cm. long, 1^-4| cm. 

 wide, firmly chartaceous or chartaceo-coriaceous subconcolor- 

 ous ; midrib prominent beneath ; veins 5-9 on each side, erect- 

 patent, arcuate upwards, delicately prominent beneath ; but 

 also on the upper surface when dry ; veinlets delicate, numer- 

 ously elevato-reticulated, main ones transverse between veins; 

 petiole erect-patent, subpilose or pilose with subadpressed- 

 ascending hairs, 2-6 mm. long. Bud small, straight or arcu- 

 ate, subulate, glabrous. Peduncles short, rising from the axil 

 of the peru.a at the base of the branchlets of this year, re- 

 trorsely pubescent, 2-10 mm. long ; bracts opposite, patent but 

 recurved above, subulato-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, usually subrhombicly or subhastatelv dilated on one side 

 below and slightly connate at the base on one side, ciliated or 

 nearly glabrous on margin, glabrous but often very thinly 

 pilose towards the base, thickish, viridescent, closely veined, 

 6-7| mm. long. Flower small, geminate, lutescent (?); bracte- 

 oles none. Calyx cup-shaped, short, thick, viridescent, 5- 

 crenate or 5-crenato-dentate, 1 mm. long. Corolla 9-12| mm. 

 long, glabrous externally, sparingly pilose within the tube, 

 deeply 2-lipped ; upper lip much broader, depressed-oval, 4- 

 cleft or 4-parted ; lobes oblong in the lateral 2, ovato-oval in 

 the inner 2, rounded at the apex, anas tomo tic- venuled , lower 

 lip narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, anastomotic- venul- 

 ed ; tube shorter than the lip, narrowly obconical, slightly gib- 

 bose above the base in front, usually attenuated at the base. 

 Stamens 5, unequal in length, the anterior ones exceeding the 



