Trees to 18 m tall, the branches smooth, terete, glabrous, ultimately angular, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong, 3.5-9.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, acute and short acuminate at apex, acute or cuneate at the base, scarcely inequilateral, the costa subplane to prominulous above, subprominent beneath, the lateral veins 9-11, at first strict, then arcuate toward the margin, the intervenal areas smooth, the veinlets inconspicuous, papyraceous, scarcely discolorous, drying chocolate brown above, glabrous above, appressed villose especially on the costa and the veins beneath; petioles 0.5-1.6 cm long, scarcely pubescent; stipules free, nar-rowly triangular, to 11 mm long, densely appressed pubescent and farinose out-side, glabrescent within. Inflorescences axillary or pseudoterminal, to 4 per axil, minutely puberulent, cymose paniculate, to 15 cm long, to 9 cm wide, the pe-duncle when present 4-9 cm long, arcuate or strict, with 3 or 4 radiate branches terminating the peduncle 1-3 cm long, the cymules hemispherical, densely flow-ered. Flowers on short pedicels to 2 mm long; calyx and hypanthium very short, glabrous truncate the 4-5 teeth obtuse, ciliate; corolla funneliform, ca. 3 mm long, the lobes 4, rounded, glabrous outside, villose within; stamens 4, exserted, the anthers narrowly ovoid, to 0.7 mm long, the ovarian disc annular ca. 0.7 mm long, 0.65 mm wide, 0.8 mm tall; style ca. 2.5 mm long, the stigmas broader than long. Fruits capsular, obovoid or turbinate, ca. 2 mm long, 1 mm wide or almost as wide as long, the valves separating almost to the base, the inner face subplane, scarious, longitudinally grooved, the outer face weakly ribbed; seeds usually 4, plane, subrotund. 0.5-1 mm in diam. the wing enveloping the central glandular shiny fruit body.
Home