Small tree to 15 m tall, of sparsely branched, open spreading growth; trunk to 1 m in diameter at base; bark brown, thick, cork-like, sutured, much roughened and shaggy by raised and slightly curled granulated narrow-oblong strips; branch-lets stout, grayish, acutely tetragonal, manifestly decussate-ampliate and flattened upwards, roughened-puberulent; leaf-buds round, gray-green; leaf-scars elevated, vertically elongate, narrow, ca. 3 mm long and 2 mm wide, the edges not at all sharp or prominent. Leaves large, opposite, bunched at the ends of the branchlets; coria~ceous, lanceolate or obovate, 7-24 cm long, 6-7 cm wide, obtusely acuminate, entire or slightly revolute-margined, basally long-cuneiform and attenuate into the petiole, petioles stout, 1-2 cm long, puberulent; dark and shiny above, paler beneath, minutely puberulent on both surfaces, probably glabrate in age, second-ary veins 12-16 pairs, arcuate-ascending, obscure above, prominent and densely puberulent beneath, plainly anastomosing along the margins beneath; minor vena-tion sparse, inconspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, opposite, cymes to 3 cm long, brachiate, few-flowered, loose; peduncles ca. 5 mm long, stout, puberulent, verrucose; pedicels slender, ca. 5 mm long, incanous-pubescent, thickened and ver-rucose in fruit; bractlets and prophylls minute, subulate, pubescent. Flowers with buds buffy-yellow or grayish-yellow; the flowers very odorous; calyx narrowly campanulate, 10-11 mm long, ca. 6 mm wide, pubescent, the rim 3-5 parted, the lobes irregular, ca. 3 mm long, slightly emarginate; corolla white, rotate or hypo-crateriform, 14-20 mm wide when fully expanded, the tube conconic or urceolate, 4.5-7 mm long, included in the calyx, the lobes 5, broadly ovate-lingulate, 6-6.5 mm long, ca. 3.7 mm wide, obtuse, sometimes recurved; stamens 5, equal, inserted ca. 2.5 mm below the mouth of the corolla-tube, scarcely exserted in pistillate flowers and long-exserted and curvate in staminate flowers, the filaments fine pubescent; pistil exserted in pistillate flowers, the style ca. 5 mm long, shorter in staminate flowers, glabrous, the stigma-branches filiform, ca. 3.7 mm long, papillose, the ovary spherical, dark, ca. 0.6 mm long and wide, glabrous, 4-celled. Fruit hard, light-colored, oblong, ca. 9 mm long and 8 mm wide, conspicuously flattened and umbilicate at the apex, 4-seeded; seeds large, nut-like, furrowed; fruiting-calyx greatly enlarged and indurated, verruculose, gray, obvolute and cucullate, somewhat irregularly lobed or splitting, ca. 15 mm long and 12 mm wide, glabrate, completely enclosing the fruit.
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