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gardens down to 1500 or 1000 ft. Aug.-Oct. — A small ever- 
green tr. 15-25 ft. high with compact bushy pyramidal or oblong- 
head and straight trunk rarely more than 6 in. in diam. covered 
with a rugged greyish brown or ash-coloured bark. The tr. is 
at once distinguishable amongst others by the bright red petioles 
and peculiar light gr. of the young 1. Petioles, young branches 
and nerves of 1. beneath rust)' -pubescent like the mainstem of the 
panicle, rachis of rac., pedic. and cal. Petioles ^-1 in. long 
slender and with the lower part of the midrib and the young- 
shoots dark bright red or reddish. L. 3-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad 
stiffish but not coriaceous, shining dark gr. and smooth above, 
paler and glabrescent beneath and finely reticulate with the 
principal nerves always more or less rusty-pubescent. Panicles 
terminal not rising much above the terminal tufts of 1. FI. 
snow-w. and very elegant in long loosely spreading unilateral 
rac. 3-6 in. long forming a depressed or short panicle, fragrant 
like Friar’s Balsam ; rachis and pedic. straight slender rusty- 
villoso-puhescent like the small inconspicuous br. which fall 
before the fl. expand, pedic. 2-3 lines long ; sep. 2 lines long 
broadly ovate or oval velvety-pubescent subciliate. Pet. reach- 
ing 3 lines beyond the sep. broadly obcuneate subbilobed or 
emarginate distinct not laterally imbricate, falling separately, 
each with 2 stain, attached to its base, the base of the limb or 
throat inside villose. Stam. 10 attached in pairs to quite the 
base of pet. and deciduous with them. A nth. apiculate or 
shortly cuspidate y., dark rich chestnut at the tip, presently in- 
verted ; cells distinct opening by an oblique and at first basal 
pore, each shortly acuminato-cuspidate at the tip or (ultimately ) 
base ; fil. smooth flattened scarcely longer than the anth. Style 
persistent simple smooth triquetrous slender, the length of the 
pet. trifid ; stigmas subcapitate. Ov. densely villose. Caps. 
3-celled subtrigonal subdepressed brown silky-pubescent loculi - 
cidally dehiscent dry, the septa separating from the axis. Seeds 
1 in each cell pendulous from the top of the axis, mostly 
abortive. 
The wood of the Folhado has no particular quality to recom- 
mend it. But the straight young tr. or saplings make admirable 
walking-poles ( hastens ) for which purpose they are universally 
employed, combining with great lightness, toughness, strength 
and elasticity. 
Order III. TERNSTRCEMIACE.E. 
The Camellia or Tea Family. 
Fl. regular perfect, rarely imperfect or diclinous. Cal. mostly 
5-, rarely 4 or 0-7-sepalous, sep. free or coherent and subadnate 
