Tree 20-30 m. tall, the trunk attaining 75 cm. in diam., the branchlets shortly stellate-puberulous. Leaves with a petiole slightly enlarged at the apex, 1-3.3 cm. long, shortly stellate-puberulous on the lower part to shortly stellate-tomentellous on the upper part, the stipules rapidly deciduous; blade oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, rounded to subcordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, 7-26 cm. long and 3-9.5 cm. wide, rigid-chartaceous, the margins entire to slightly subserrulate, scatteringly and very shortly stellate-puberulous to glabrate above, densely and very shortly fimbrillate-lepidote and generally with tufts of brownish hairs in the axIs of the secondary nerves beneath, 3-palminerved, the nervation prominent especially beneath. Inflorescences oppositifolious, the panicles loose and few-flowered, the axes shortly stellate-tomentellous, the bracts missing at anthesis. Flowers with a pedicel 1-1.2 cm. long, the sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, very slightly connate at the base, cucullate and acute at the apex, 1.8-2.6 cm. long and 0.3-0.5 cm. wide, fleshy, shortly stellate-tomentellous to stel-late-puberulous outside, sometimes mixed with scattered, long hairs, glabrous with-in; petals 5, spatulate to obovate-spatulate, rounded and more or less deeply emarginate, 1.35-2 cm. long and 0.65-1.3 cm. widc, yellow, glabrous; stamens connate into a very short tube ca. 1.5-2 mm. long, the filaments ca. 1.5 mm. long, long-pilose, the anthers ca. 2 mm. long, sparsely pilose especially at the base and along the margins, the appendage retuse and ca. 4-4.5 mm. long; ovary transversely elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm. long and 3.5 mm. broad, densely scabrous-hispidulous, many-celled; style ca. 1.2 cm. long, sparsely hispidulous at the base; stigma shortly denticulate. Capsule transversely narrow-elliptic, sometimes apicu-late, ca. 1.5 cm. long and 5.5-6.5 cm. broad, densely covered with short to rather long, stout, conic-based spines, these shortly puberulous to glabrate; seeds ca. 3.5-4 mm. long and 2.5-3 mm. broad.
Home