square, puberulent. Peduncle beads at top 2 linear bracts 3 mm long at this stage is as long as bud. 5 calyx lobes ciliate. Petals & counting some rudimentary ones, more less ciliate, show stldts plainly. Very 4-celled (mostly 3-celled) 5-10-29 Fl. Smallh X Labeled "Desinilla japonica" 4-11-29 (See 4-15-29 Age St.) Shrub Southlands Fr on which what seems to be corolla is persistent. Twigs slender reddish brown puberulent. Tips in of pp fascicles (perianxillo) fallen. 3/4" x frag, obovate or irregularly crenate- serrate the numerous tips of each tooth in pressed closed to the fruit looths v not evident to the tree Apex blunt but mucronate, bases narrowed or rounded. If dark green above lightlt below reticulated veins depressed above. If shining even in early stages. Petiole less than 1/4 in. Fr in short panicles 3/4-1in per fascill- ary. Peduncle & pedicels puberulent. Peduncle bracted at base, bearing successively opp short branches (1mm) which from their bracted tip bear 1-3 fr [This consists] of calyx tube 1/2 mm x 4 lobes (1 opp pair larger than others) less than 1mm. This may be false calyx tube & sessile flower or pedicel if the 4 lobes is the inside of the calyx] seated in the center of these 4 lobes and easily detachable is what looks like a selfed, spm "achene" 4mm. long bearing at top apex x 4 or usually 5 spreading ob lanceolate slimbs 6-7 mm long. This "achene" is showing a 2-celled ovary bearing ovules on the division wall. Cannot tell whether these bodies are really fr or within v dried tips. Nor.