Tree about 6 m. tall; young branches very shortly rufous-tomentellous. Petiole of leaves 10-12 mm. long, thick; blade chartaceous in desiccation, yellowish green, very glabrous and smooth above, glabrous and paler beneath, oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base, gradually narrowed toward the tip, 30-35 cm. long and 8-10 cm. broad, the costa flattened above, strongly prominent beneath, terete, roughish, lateral veins about 15 on each side, broadly ascending, both the veins and the veinlets somewhat elevated beneath. Pedicels of flowers short, 3-4 mm. long, thick, rufous-tomentellous like the sepals and the petals, provided with a vaginiform bract near the calyx. Sepals ovate-orbicular, rounded at the tip, not recurved, 7-10 mm. long. Petals thick, the outer oblong, rounded and not narrowed toward the tip, but carinate toward the tip within, up to 12 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, the inner lanceolate, very acute, pilose to the middle and carinate above the middle within. Stamens linear, 3 mm. long, the appendage of the connective slender, about 0.7 mm. long, truncate-rounded. Fruit unknown.
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