Shrubs or low trees, the young twigs subterete, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves elliptical, acute at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous, chartaceous, up to 12 cm. long and 4.5 cm. wide, the midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves numerous, prominulous on both sides, joining the marginal nerve very near the margin at about 1.5 mm. distance from the margin; petiole canalicu-late, up to 8 mm. long, pubescent, glabrescent. Panicles nearly as long as the leaf, rarely shorter, brown-pubescent with dibrachiate stalked hairs, the branches 2-4 together, the ultimate flowers mostly sessile, sometimes partly pedicellate, 1-5 to-gether in small glomerules. Flower buds obovoid, about 2 mm. high, brown-puberulous, opening with a shallow cup-like lid. Petals none. Filaments up to 4 mm. long; anthers small, at length twisted. Berry globose, glabrous; cotyledons contort-plicate.
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