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terete, glabrous, umber-gilvous; branchlets gracile, erect-patent, 

 pale-umber-gilvous or pale-avellaneous, terete and sometimes 

 obscurely tetragonous, glabrous, the outer bark often easily 

 peeling off into fibrils, furnished with a few small perulae at 

 the base, the nodes with the prominent scars of petioles ; 

 perulse not many, membranaceous, glabrous, not ciliated, the 

 lowest one smallest, thickish, deltoid, acute, the middle ones 

 depressedly ovato-deltoid, obtuse, the upper ones larger, round- 

 ed or oval, obtuse, often reflexed, attaining about 3^ mm. long. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, eUiptical, ovato- 

 oblong, oval-ovate, or elliptical-oblong, or often sub-rectangu- 

 larly ovato-oblong or oval-oblong in the cordate ones, obtuse 

 or rounded at the apex, acutish obtuse rounded-obtuse or 

 cordate at the base, entire or obscurely repand and delicately 

 thinly ciliated on margin, glabrous but thinly pubescent on 

 the midrib below and in the basal portion above, or pubescent 

 towards the margin above, pubescent (pubes pale, denser 

 towards the lower portion of the midrib) beneath, membra- 

 naceous, concolourous, about 1-3 cm. long and |-2 cm. broad 

 in flowers, the lower leaves patent, the lowest ones often 

 diminished in size; midrib prominent beneath; veins about 4-7 

 on each side, erect-patent, arcuate upwards, but spreading in 

 the basal ones in those of the cordate leaves ; veinlets finely 

 reticulated, hardly impressed above, the main veinlets cross 

 between veins, prominent beneath ; petiole pubescent with 

 ascending hairs, and thinly mixed with minute glandular hairs, 

 canaliculated in front, 1^-2^ mm. long. Peduncles rising 

 from the axils of the lower leaves, and occationally of the superior 

 leaves, never at the top of the branchlets, shorter than the 

 leaves, gracile, filiform, antrorsely thin-pubcvscent, 8-25 mm. 

 long ; bracts opposite, spreading, exceeding the ovary, oblong, 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear, obtuse or acutish, entire and often 

 scantily minutely glanduloso-ciliated below on margin, glabrous, 

 or pubescent and minutely glandular hairy in the lower portion 

 dorsally, green, thin, 3-6 mm. long. Flowers geminate, 

 parallel, erect, directing outwards, about 15 mm. long ; 

 bracteoles rounded, slightly shorter than the ovaries, connate 



