Tree 5-8 m. high, young branchlets ferruginous-tomentose. Leaf petioles tomen-tose, 3-4 mm. long; blades glabrous on the upper side except on the midrib when young, subglabrous underneath with the midrib and thicker nerves tomentellous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, cuneate and acute at the base, obtusely acuminate at the apex, 10-20 cm. long and 4-8 cm. broad. Inflorescences opposite the leaves, 1-to 2-flowered; their peduncle 3-10 mm. long, provided near the apex with a cordate-orbicular, acute, foliaceous bract 1.5-2.0 cm. long; flower pedicel about 7 cm. long, tomentellous, generally curved, bearing below the middle and at the base on the secondary flower small bracts 1-3 mm. long. Sepals triangular, 2-3 mm. long. Petals linear-oblong from a broad base, revolute at the margins and incurved at the apex, 15-25 mm. long. Ovaries 7-15, ovules 2-8. Monocarps shortly cylindric, rounded at both ends, 14-18 mm. long and 10-11 mm. across; stipes 8-10 mm. long.
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