Tree. Twigs glabrous or very minutely puberulous. Leaves 5-10 by 2-5 cm, shortly attenuate at the base, acuminate to cuspidate at the top, with acute tip, chartaceous, faintly reticulate; nerves 8-12 pairs, flat above, prominent beneath; petiole 5-8 mm, 1-2 mm ø. Inflorescence 5-20 cm, branched up to the second order, with slender axes each bearing up to c. 15 flowers; primary axes up to 4 pairs, 4-15 cm. Bracts of the axes deltoid to narrowly triangular, 1-3 mm, acute at the top, subglabrous, mostly caducous, sometimes partly present as small or reduced leaves. Floral bracts small, the middle one triangular to linear-lanceolate, ½-4 mm, the lateral ones minute. Pedicels 1-2½ mm, c. ½ mm Ø. Receptacle c. 2 mm high, c. 3 mm wide, sometimes faintly ribbed, sparsely minutely puberulous. Sepals c. ½ mm. Petals c. 3 mm, c. 1 mm wide at the base, valvate, almost completely connate, only enveloping the dorsal and part of the apical side of the stamens. Filaments c. l½ mm, c. Viirim wide at the base, glabrous. Connective pear-or drop-shaped, c. 1½ mm, with dorsal swelling. Anther-cells c. 1 by c. ¼ mm. Style c. 2 mm, c. ½ mm Ø, hardly or not protruding from mature bud. Ovules 2 per cell. Capsule 1½-2 by l-1½ cm, faintly 10-ribbed, rim of enlarged receptacle about median; valves c. ¾ cm. Seeds not seen.
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