Trees to 15 m tall, glabrous throughout, the twiglets stout, 4-angled, lenticel-late. Leaves broadly elliptic obovate to broadly ovate elliptic, 16.5-25.0 cm long, 9.0-16.5 cm wide, acute or obtuse at the base, the costa and lateral veins stout, salient beneath, the lateral nerves 9, arcuate, papyraceous, concolorous, pale green when dry; petioles stout, 1.7-2.5 cm long; stipules persistent above, semi-orbicular, ca. 5 mm long, wider than long, intrapetiolar, shortly connate, broadly rounded at the apex. Inflorescences terminal, glabrous, to 6 cm long, to 5 cm wide, the peduncle to 2 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide. Flowers sessile or subsessile; hypanthium short, glabrous, the calycine cup cylindrical, ca. 9 mm long, ca. 6 mm wide at the apex, the latter truncate, coriaceous, glabrous, dentate, eglan-dular; corolla (seen only in part) narrow below, presumably falcate, coriaceous,
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glabrous outside, pubescent within; stamens 4, included in the tube, the anthers lunate or S-shaped, 5-6 mm long, tapering at the apex, cordate at the base, the filaments 1/2 to almost as long as the anthers, presumably attached at the middle of the tube; ovarian disc prominent. Fruits oblong, to 2 cm long, often somewhat falcate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, green to yellow, lenticellate or smooth, the calycine cup short, smooth, glabrous.
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