Desmopsis bibracteata Saff.

Shrub or small tree. Leaves on petioles 2-3 mm. long, lustrous on both sides, glabrous above, hirsute beneath at first but soon quite glabrous, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic or rhombic, cuneate at the base, shortly angustate into an obtuse or rotundate apex, 5-14 cm. long, 2.5-5.5 cm. broad. Inflorescences on peduncles 2-5 mm. long, these bearing at the apex a rotundate-cordate, foliaceous bract 0.5-1.5 cm. long; flower solitary; pedicel slender, thinly appressed-hairy, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, provided below the middle with a small foliaceous bract 1-3 mm. long. Petals oblong 10(-18) mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, sericeous outside. Ovaries 14-20, densely sericeous; ovules 3. Monocarps on stipes about 5 mm. long, subglobose or shortly cylindric, truncate-rotundate or even umbilicate at both ends, constricted between the seeds, 5-10 mm. long and 6-8 mm. broad.