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Tree, 25 by ½ m. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 12-20 by 3-5½ cm, cuneate at the base, gradually narrowed at the apex into a 1-1.5 cm long acumen, thinly chartaceous, chestnut-brown when dry, glabrous (except occasionally here and there along the midrib below); midrib narrowly impressed above, nerves slender, widely patulous, rather dense, not very conspicuous; petiole 9-12 by 1-2 mm, sparsely puberulous. Inflorescences 8-13 cm long, slender, subferrugineo-tomentellous, with several branchlets, these racemiform, relatively elongate,½-3 cm long; flowers scattered, not nodose-fasciculate; pedicels 1¼-1½ cm, densely tomentellous. Calyx shortly cupuliform, distinctly gibbous-truncate at the base, c. 4 mm long, 6-7 mm wide, tomentellous; segments ovate-deltoid, obtuse, strongly revolute at anthesis. Petals 20-25, subulate, 2 mm, glabrous, epustulate. Style glabrous. Fruit unknown.
