Trees to 60 ft tall, the branchlets terete, smooth, villose, minutely resinous pustulate (bases of deciduous hairs), the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong, oc-casionally falcate, 10-17 cm long, 6.0-9.5 cm wide, obtuse and short acuminate, the acumen to 1 cm long, obtuse, occasionally truncate, the costa slender, prom-inulous above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins 12-15, prominulous, arcuate, stiffly papyraceous, glabrous above and beneath, the intervenal areas reticulate; petioles to 1 cm long, stout, villose, the lamina decurrent on the upper side; stipules deciduous, deltoid lanceolate, ca. 1 cm long, acuminate, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, longer than the uppermost leaves, the peduncle shorter than the uppermost leaves, glabrous with 2 branches arising at the tip, the flowers several, ascending. Flowers with the hypanthium short, subrotund, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., glabrous, the calycine teeth reduced to 4-5 fleshy points; corolla white, the tube cylindrical, expanded at the apex and at the base, 1.5-2.3 cm long, 0.14 cm wide in the middle, fleshy to subcoriaceous, glabrous, the lobes 5, imbricate, oblong, ca. 0.8 mm long, not cucculate; stamens 5, the anthers dimorphic, usually 2 long and 2 short, dorsifixed, the thecae of some anthers dimorphic, oblong to rotund, the filaments linear, to 7 times the length of the anthers, attached below the middle of the tube; ovarian disc prominent, the style subulate to 11 mm long, the stigmas 2, ca. 1.5 mm long, wider than the style, oblong rotund. Fruits not seen.
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