marginal vein undulate, 2-3 mm from the margin, the intervenal areas reticulate, coriaceous, emerald green beneath when dry, glabrous; petioles absent or to 1 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide, glabrous when dry; stipules free, ovate triangular, to 1 cm long, basally ca. 0.65 cm wide, obtuse, coriaceous, with minute dots outside, to 0.2 mm in diam. Inflorescences terminal, solitary, to 7 cm long, to 5 cm wide, glabrous, drying black; peduncle to 2 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide, the branches few, short, to 2 cm long, the flowers spreading. Flowers sessile, the perianth parts carnose; hypanthium oblong, 2.5-4.0 mm long, minutely puberulent or gla-brescent, the calycine cup turgid, collarlike, ca. 3 mm long, ca. 3.5 mm wide, truncate, the teeth 4 or scarcely visible, ovate oblong, 0.8-1.5 mm long, reflexed, obtuse; corolla cream colored, the tube narrowly hypocrateriform, ca. 1.4 cm long, minutely puberulent outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, narrowly oblong, 7-9 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers narrowly oblong, ca. 6 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide, the filaments short, ca. 1.5 mm long, plane, attached near the middle of the tube; style slender, ca. 4 mm long, the stigmas 2, linear oblong, ca. 2 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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Small trees to 4 m tall, the twiglets thick, ultimately somewhat angular, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced, somewhat turgid, the leaf scars trian-gular or subrotund, ca. 0.5 cm long. Leaves obovate or obovate oblong, to 22 cm long, to 12 cm wide, obtuse or rounded at the apex, acuminate, the acumen short, to 5 mm long, cuneate or obtuse at the base, the costa prominulous or subplane above, prominent beneath, convex, the lateral veins ca. 17, arcuate, the sub-
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