Glabrous but for the buff pubescent inside of stipules. Twig 3-4 mm ø apically, slender, smooth, often tending to be triangular; with inconspicuous stipule scars. Bud 15-30 by 2-3 mm, linear, terete. Stipule to 6 by 0.5 mm, linear. Leaves 11-14 by 4-6 cm, narrowly elliptic, thinly coriaceous, margin undulate and +-sinuate distally; base cuneate, apex to 6 mm long, acuminate; nerves 11-14 pairs, close, oblique (30°-40°); tertiary nerves widely spaced, scalariform but rather sinuate, at c. 90° to nerves; petiole 2-4.5 cm long, slender. Raceme to 18 cm long, terminal or axillary, glabrous, terete, becoming ribbed on drying, zigzag; simple or singly branched, with distichous flowers at wide intervals; bracts unknown. Flower bud to 4 by 0.9 cm, slender. Calyx and corolla typical, calyx glabrous. Stamens c. 15, shorter than the style; filaments short; anthers narrowly oblong, tapering. Ovary ovoid-conical, densely tomentose; style and stylopodium about 3 times as long as ovary, filiform, slightly tapering, densely tomentose at base, glabrous at apex. Fruit glabrous; calyx tube c. 2.5 by 1 cm, ellipsoid to fusiform, broadest distally, the base constricted abruptly at the pedicel, slightly constricted at the c. 7 mm ø neck; 5 winged, the wings incrassate but acute, rather narrow and widest (c. 3 mm) distally, continuing the whole length of the tube; 2 longer calyx lobes to 9.5 by 3 cm, lanceolate, equally 3-nerved, obtuse, tapering gradually to the 3-4 mm wide base; 3 shorter lobes c. 4 mm long and broad, small, obtuse, slightly revolute.
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