Tree 4 m; branchlets blackish when dry, rather densely greyish-patent-pilose. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, gradually attenuate at the apex into a c. 3 cm long acute and somewhat curved acumen, acute at the base, chartaceous, with very conspicuous, pellucid dots and lines, dark red-brown when dry, a little shining above, dull beneath, entire or obscurely undulate, glabrous above except the midrib, rather densely patent-pilose on midrib and nerves underneath, glabrous elsewhere; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, 13-15 by 3½-4½ cm; nerves 8-9 pairs, the inferior 3-4 suberect, superior ones more curved, all obscurely inarched near the leaf-margin, veins rather densely transverse, visibly raised as well as the finer reticulations, specially beneath; petiole slender, ± 1 cm, pubescent. Flowers green, in 4-6-flowered fascicles. Bracts numerous, ovate, 1 mm, pubescent. Pedicels ± 4 mm, pubescent. Calyx 3 mm, appressed-pubescent outside, rather deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10 (rarely 12); filaments thick-filiform, glabrous, alternately 2 and 1.5 mm. Staminodes similar to the filaments, 1 mm, barbate at the apex. Ovary elongate-ovoid, 3 mm, glabrous in the inferior half, pilose towards the short style.
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