Shrub to 3 m. tall, the younger stems hirsute; petioles 5-12 mm. long; leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, a fourth to a third as wide, acuminate, obscurely serrulate, hirsutulous on both sides, 3-nerved; panicle small, the glomerulate flovers subtended by oblong-obovate bracts 8 mm. long and by smaller bractlets; buds pyriform, about 8 mm. long, abruptly acuminate, hirsute; hypanthium at anthesis about 3 mm. long; petals white, 7-8 mm. long; style straight; stigma ovoid, scarcely wider than the style.
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