This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...above by soft white appressed hairs and villose on the midribs and veins below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, yellow-green, glabrous, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, pale and nearly glabrous on the lower surface, 3--4.5 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with prominent midribs, and 3 or 4 pairs of thin ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...above by soft white appressed hairs and villose on the midribs and veins below, and at maturity thin but firm in texture, yellow-green, glabrous, smooth and lustrous on the upper surface, pale and nearly glabrous on the lower surface, 3--4.5 cm. long and 2.5-3 cm. wide, with prominent midribs, and 3 or 4 pairs of thin primary veins extending obliquely to the points of the lobes and deeply impressed on the upper side of the leaf; turning deep orange-red late in the autumn before falling; petioles stout, narrow-wing-margined to below the middle, villose while young, becoming glabrous, 8-10 mm. in length. Flowers 1.8-2 cm. in diameter, on long slender villose pedicels, in narrow crowded mostly 8-10flowered corymbs, the long lower peduncles from the axils of upper leaves; calyx-tube narrowly obconic, thickly covered with appressed white hairs, the lobes narrow, acuminate and rose-colored at the apex, sparingly serrate, with slender glandular teeth, glabrous on the outer, villose on the inner surface, reflexed after anthesis; stamens 15; anthers pale yellow; styles 3-5, surrounded at the base by a narrow ring of pale tomentum. Fruit ripening the end of October, on very slender drooping pedicels, in usually 4-or 5-fruited clusters, subglobose to short-oblong, full and rounded at the ends, crimson, lustrous, marked by large pale dots, 8-10 mm. in diameter; calyx prominent, with a broad deep cavity wide and tomentose in the bottom, and small spreading and appressed lobes; flesh thin, yellow, dry and hard; nutlets 3-5, gradually narrowed and acute at the ends, slightly ridged on the back, with a narrow low ridge, about 5 mm. long, and 3.5-4 mm. wide. A small tree, with slender slightly zigzag branchlets dark orange-green and covered with matted pale hairs when they ...
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