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Small, slender tree, 12 m by 20 cm. Wood soft, light. Branchlets dark brown. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, base broadly cuneate, apex rounded and shortly cuspidate, 12-24 by 5-9½ cm, charta-ceo-coriaceous, glabrous and somewhat glossy above, with sparse scattered ochraceous hairs below, midrib thinly adpressed pubescent, drying a relatively bright green on both surfaces, or sometimes ochraceous below, with a distinct narrow dark brown border; nervation very prominent, strongly reticulate, rather dense, midrib rather broadly and shallowly channelled above; petiole robust, 10-13 by 3-4 mm, pubescent below. Inflorescences relatively small, stout, 7-8 cm long, with 2-3 very short branches, densely ochraceous-pu-bescent when young, thinly so when mature. Pedicels c. 2½ cm, tomentellous. Calyx 12 mm long; sepals lanceolate, c. 10 by 4-5 mm, acute and subacuminate, densely tomentellous outside. Petals c. 40, filiform-subulate, c. 5 mm, glabrous, probably epustulate. Stamens c. 40. Style pubescent. Fruit (not seen in mature state) 'irregularly globose' (teste ELMER), up to 6 cm diam., 5-valved.
