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Clethraceae 
Clethra canescens Reinw. Innovationes in sicco cinnamomee floccoso- 
stellato-lanatae. Folia alterna, petiolata, lanceolata vel plus minusve elUp- 
tica^ leviter acuminata, acuta^ hasi acuta vel interdum ohtusiuscula^ supra 
basin irregulariter serrata vel dentato-serrata^ dentihus calloso-apiculatis^ 
adulta supra glabra, subtus in nervis densius stellato-pilosa, inter nervos 
sparsim breviter stcllato-puhescentia^ in utraque parte costae mediae nervis 
lateralibus c 17 — 20, patentibus, haud vel vix curvatis, intra marginem 
anastomosantibus, veriis clathratis densis in sicco supra plerumque leviter 
impressis subtus paulo prominentibus conjimctis, nervis supra sulcalis, 
subtus val de prominentibus, crebre reticulato-venosa, c. 5.5 — 9,5 cm. longa, 
2-4 cm. lata ; petiolus supra sulcatiis, stellato-lanatus, c. 0.7 — 1.3 cm. 
longus. Inflorescentiae terminales, simpliciter paniculiformes, multiflorae, 
dense floccoso- lanatae, c. 7 — 7.5 cm, longae, ramis inferiotnbus in axilla 
foliorum superiorum ad c. S cm. longis, pedunculo ad c. 2.8 cm. longo. 
Bracteae caducae, subiilatae, lanato-villosae, c. 0.6 cm. longae. Flores 
pedicellati, pedicello lanato, c. 0.3 — 0.6 cm. longo. Calyx profunde 5- 
partitus, laciniis paulo inaequalibus, ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, acutiusculis, 
concavis, dorso lanatis, c. 0.34 — 0.4 cm. longis, 0.175-0.2 cm. latis. 
Petala (ex alabastro) 5, ambitu late obovata, brevissime et late unguicu- 
lata, subquadrilobulata (constrictione), apice lata subretusa, minute crenu- 
lata, glabra. Stamina {ex alabastro) 10; filamentum basi dilatatum. 
glabrum; anthera medio dorsifixa, extiorsa, ambitu elliptica, subsigmoidea^ 
conico-apiculata, basi bifida, thecis sulcoprofundo long itudinali instructis- 
Ovarium (fecundatum) depresse globosum, adpresse villosum, c. 0.24 cm. 
diam ; Stylus clavatus, glaber, c. 0.35 cm. longue. 
