Herbarium catalogue

capsule empty ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN Type Specimen QM

Cc RH. NIPHOBOLUM - Tree. Branches young glabrous. Foliage-buds elongated ovoid glabrous, perulae exterior coriaceous | apiculate white ciliate. Leaves coriaceous oval 9 cm. X 4 cm. Apex rounded. Edge cartilaginous. Base widely San Above dark green glaucous as if waxed (cf. RH. ECLECTEUM) glabrous{. Geiow tawny copiously red-punctulate sad many rod - papillae. Petiole 1 cm. glabrous. Umbel 4-flowered ? Bracts ——0 Bracteoles filiform 7 mm. S6msp glabrous but for a few apical iia: Pedicels Ll om. bese glabrous. Calyx 5 bm. glabrous ephe Cup-base dark crimson; limb ochre mem- branous 5-lobed; lobes rounded unequal posterior largest 3 am lea Corgila crimson spotted no blotch zygomorphous campanulate 4.5 cm. at back 4 em. in front glabrous out and in gibbous and AD ee false septate); lobes rounded emarginate 1.5 cm. Stamens 10, longer 3.5 cm., shorter 2.5 cm. Disk glabrous. : @ Gynaeceum 3.5 cm. bet; ovary 4.5 mm. beng conoid sulcate truncate sparingly glandular on ridges, glands nearly sessile. Style thin glabrous. Stigma less than diameter of style. rf ts 9.--10 copyright reserved 5 le