Shrub or treelet, 2-5 m, glabrous or the young twigs sometimes thinly tomentose. Leaves ovate to oblong (to lanceolate), (6½-)10-21 by (3.5-)5-9 cm, tough-papyraceous to thin-chartaceous, base rounded to cuneate, apex tapering to rather abruptly acuminate, acumen short and triangular to long and slender, acute; nerves 5-8(-10) pairs; petiole 1/3-1.5 cm. Inflorescences axillary and partly ramiflorous, umbelliform, short-stalked, 3-5(-c.15)-flowered, 1-2 cm long. Pedicels slender, (0.6-)0.8-1.3 cm. Calyx 2-2.5 mm high, outside rather densely shortly tomentose, lobes semi-orbicular. Corolla 5.5 mm long, glabrous on both sides, lobes 3.25 mm, slightly acuminate, broadly imbricate in bud. Stamens glabrous, filaments up to 1 mm, anthers 1-1½ mm long, the appendage of the connective small. Pistil glabrous, style 1.5-1.75 mm. Fruits obovoid to ellipsoid, c. 1 by ¾ cm, sutures distinct.
Mainly along forested river-banks, also on Saccharum-covQied shoals in river-beds, 50-1750 m. Fl. fr. probably Jan.-Dec.
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