Trees, to 10 m high, the branchlets thick, drying ca. 9 mm in diameter at the bases of the inflorescences, glabrous, terete. Leaves glabrous, short petiolate, the petioles thick, marginate, to 1.5 cm long; leaf blades coriaceous, pallid, narrowly oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, to 32 cm long and 6.5-9 cm wide, subacuminate apically, subcuneate basally, decurrent on the petiole, margin entire, revolute, conspicuously punctate at first, the midvein depressed above, thick and elevated beneath, the lateral veins numerous, slender, arcu-ately ascending. Inflorescences terminal, equaling the leaves, bipinnately pa-niculate, the peduncle and rachis thick, the basal branches to 20 cm long, glabrous. Flowers 5-merous, spicate, sessile, each subtended in bud by a black-punctate ovate cucullate bract longer than the calyx; sepals free, im-bricate, ovate, 6 mm long, symmetrical, rounded apically, minutely ciliolate, conspicuously black-punctate, glandular within; corolla ca. 1.3 cm long, the petals connate basally ca. 2.5 mm, linear-oblong, ca. 3 mm wide, emarginate and asymmetrical apically, densely punctate with black glands, glabrous dorsally, glandular within basally; stamens ca. 9 mm long, the filaments inserted in the corolla tube, connate basally, 3.5 mm long, glandular-papillose below, black-punctate, the anthers thick, sagittate-lanceolate, ca. 5.5 mm long, acute, concolorous, not punctate, dehiscent at first by small apical pores; ovary ovoid, punctate, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate, the style slender, ca. 1 cm long.
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