A small much-branched tree. Stems hairy when young, the surface fissured lengthwise and crosswise as they grow. Leaves borne at frequent intervals, opposite, coriaceous, the petiole short, densely hairy, the lamina ovate or broadly lanceolate, c. 7 cm long x 3 cm wide, obtusely apiculate, glabrous above and below, the midrib prominent below with a few scattered hairs. Stipules interpetiolar, narrow, hairy, caducous. Flowers in axillary clusters, scented. Bracts short, rigid, forming a globular envelope to the base of the pedicel which is c. 5 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, c. 2 mm long, lobes 5, valvate, narrow-triangular, c. 8 mm long, spreading widely, fulvous-hairy outside. Petals 5, white, narrowly spathulate, the lamina c. 5 mm long with the apex fringed with 5-10 very narrow laciniae c. 2 mm long. Stamens about 15, filaments filiform, c. 7 mm long, inserted below the many-pointed rigid disc, the anthers curved, c. 1 mm long. Ovary partly sunk in the disc, covered with stiff white setae which tip the partly grown fruit, the style c. 4 mm long with a shortly 3-4-lobed stigma, ovules few.
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