a much-branched more or less globose bush; branchlets stout, subterete, about 4 1/2 lin. in diam. near the apex, glabrous; leaf-scars oblong-orbicular or horse-shoe-shaped, 5–6 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad; stipular scars very broad; leaves suborbicular, very shortly and obtusely acuminate, deeply cordate at the base, 4–6 1/2 in. long, 3 1/2–6 1/2 in. broad, entire, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces or sparingly pubescent below, 9-nerved at the base; midrib slightly raised above, prominent below, about 1 lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to and finally reaching the apex of the blade; lateral nerves (excluding the basal ones) 4–5 on each side, diverging from the midrib at an angle of 45°, prominent on both surfaces, bifurcate 1/4– 3/4 in. from the margin; tertiary nerves lax and wavy, somewhat prominent below; veins close and distinct below; petiole 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, narrowly grooved on the upper surface, glabrous; stipules caducous, not seen; receptacles axillary, probably solitary, sessile or nearly so, depressed, globose, with a very slightly prominent ostiole, slightly stipitate and slightly 7-ribbed at the base, 6–7 lin. in diam., very minutely puberulous; basal bracts 4, ovate, rounded at the apex, about 1 lin. long and broad, coriaceous, reddish-brown when dry, glabrous; ostiolar bracts all descending vertically into the receptacle, lanceolate, subacute, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, reddish, with rather narrowly membranous margins, glabrous; male flowers very few near the ostiolar bracts, shortly pedicellate; perianth enclosing the solitary subsessile anther; female flowers sessile, scattered amongst the gall flowers; perianth-segments 4, linear, subacute, about 1 lin. long, hyaline; achene ellipsoid; style lateral, longer than the achene; stigma bifid; gall-flowers pedicellate; pedicel stout, 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; ovary as in female flowers, but with a larger subsessile stigma; scales of the receptacle subulate, acute, 3/4 lin. long, with very narrowly membranous margins. null
