Large bushy shrub, c. 2 m; branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves oblong, c. 2 cm obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, thinly chartaceous, with many pellucid dots and lines, brownish when dry, ± inequilateral, glabrous, rather regularly serrate-crenate (teeth obtuse up to 1 mm high, 3-4 mm distant), midrib nearly flat above, prominent beneath, 20-32 by 10-12.5 cm; nerves 10-12 pairs, rather straight, upwards curved-ascending towards the leaf-margin, obscure above, conspicuously raised beneath, veins manifestly transverse, little elevated on both faces, finer reticulations obscure; petiole rather thick, glabrous. Flowers white, solitary or 2-3 in a fascicle, sometimes on a very short (up to 1.5 mm), many-bracteolate stalk. Bracts ovate, acuminate, membranous, subglabrous, c. 1.5 mm. Calyx ± densely sericeous in-and outside, 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments sparsely pilose, alternately 0.6 and 0.3 mm. Staminodes represented by small hairy tufts. Ovary elongate-ovoid, 2 by 1 mm, densely hairy.
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