Erect shrubs or trees to 2.5 m. tall, young branches shortly villous and glan-dular, the bark becoming shredded whitish-silver. Leaves lanceolate, acute to acuminate at the apex, obtuse to obtusely attenuate at the base, 2.0-13.5 cm. long, 0.6-5.0 cm. wide, above dark green to purplish red, glabrous to minutely puber-ulent, paler beneath, villous on veins, the primary lateral veins forming an indistinct and sometimes interrupted submarginal vein; petiole 0.5-5.0 cm. long; stipules to 1.5 mm. long. Cymes gathered into axillary umbelliform clusters; peduncle 1-7 mm. long; bracts in two superposed pairs; pedicel 5-7 mm. long, occasionally subtended by a minute bracteole. Flowers trimorphic: short-styled, intermediate-styled and long-styled. Intermediate-styled flowers: hypanthium campanulate 2-4 mm. long, 3.25-4.0 mm. broad at the orifice, tomentose and glandular without, tomentose within, the calyx lobes more or less deltoid; petals 3.5-4.0 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide, glandular without, rose or white; stamens equal or occasionally alternately unequal with antesepalous stamens one-third longer than the ante-petalous, exserted, the anthers 0.5 mmJ long, the filaments (when equal) 4.5-5.5 mm. long, glabrous, united at the base; ovary turbinately globose gradually nar-rowed into a cuneate gynophore, 1.75-2.0-mm.-long, glabrous or villous, upper half glandular, the placentation axile; style 1.0-1.5 mm. long, glandular toward the base. Short-styled like the intermediate-styled except: hypanthium 2.0-3.25 mm. broad at the orifice; petals 2.0-2.75 mm. long, 0.5-1.25 mm. wide; stamens equal, exserted, the filaments 3.0-4.25 mm. long, glabrous; ovary narrowly ovoid, 1.0-1.25 mm. long, diameter 0.25-0.5 mm., upper half villous and glandular; style 0.5-1.0 mm. long. Long-styled flowers like the intermediate-styled except: petals 2.5 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. wide; stamens equal, included, the filaments 1.5-2.5 mm. long; ovary turbinately globose, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, diameter 1-2 mm., upper half villous and glandular, the gynophore reduced; style 1.5-2.0 mm. long. Fruit an indehiscent ovoid capsule; seeds about 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide.
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