Trees to 4 m tall, the branchlets rigid, angular, glabrous, sharply ascending, the nodes well spaced, somewhat turgid. Leaves narrowly or widely elliptic, often slightly falcate, rarely inequilateral, 14-20 cm long, 3.5-10.0 cm wide, deltoid toward the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 2 cm long, often ultimately acute, cuneate or obtuse at the base, the lateral veins 11-14, arcuate, disappearing toward the margin, the intervenal areas reticulate, the raphides minute, white, rigidly membranous, concolorous, glabrous or puberulent below on the costa and veins; petioles thick, 0.5-1.0 cm long, to 0.25 cm wide, puberulent; stipules de-ciduous, not seen. Inflorescences terminal, racemelike, to 5 cm long, to 3 cm wide, the peduncle slender, 1-2 cm long, subtended by 2 large leaflike bracts 2.0-5.5 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, each bract with an erect linear-oblong process in the axil, to 0.4 mm long, obtuse, black, glabrous, the flowers 15-20, either solitary on the rachis or in 2-3 sessile clusters. Flowers with the pedicels short, 1-3 mm long, glabrous; hypanthium oblong, ca. 2 mm long, glabrate, the calycine cup cupuliform, somewhat turgid, to 0.6 mm long, minutely puberulent only on the margin, inside with 10 rotund glands of various size, dark red; corolla white, the tube narrowly cylindrical, ca. 7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, subfalcate in the bud, narrow toward the base, carnose, glabrous, the lobes 4, carnose, nar-rowly oblong, to 5 mm long, stamens 4, the anthers narrowly rectangular, ca. 4 mm long, obtuse, sagittate at the base, the filaments arising near the middle of the tube; disc of the ovary compressed rotund, to 0.8 mm long, the style plane compressed, ca. 5 mm long, the stigmas 2, fingerlike, to 2 mm long. Fruit not seen.
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