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bis.
P. Dallii,
Cheesm. n. sp.—Apparently a small tree; branches stout, whorled, the younger ones glabrous, with reddish bark. Leaves towards the tips of the branchlets, alternate or subwhorled, 2½–4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, sharply and coarsely doubly serrate; midrib stout, prominent above; veins finely reticulate; petioles ½–¾ in. long, stout, reddish. Flowers not seen. Capsules numerous, arranged in corymbose cymes terminating the branches, about ½ in. long, elliptic-oblong, apiculate, quite glabrous, 2-valved; valves hard and woody, rough and corrugated. Seeds numerous. |