A tree about 12 m. high; young branchlets very densely covered with rigid ferruginous erect-patent hairs. Leaves on petioles 2-3 mm. long, membranaceous, glabrous above except on the more or less tomentose midrib, pale green beneath and rather thinly clothed with decumbent or patent hairs, more densely along the thicker nerves, oblanceolate-obovate, tapering into a cuneate acute base, abruptly contracted at the apex into an acumen 0.5-1.0 cm. long, 10-18 cm. long and 3-7 cm. broad. Flowers solitary in the axils; pedicels thick, 8-10 mm. long, articulate about 2 mm. above the base. Sepals rotundate, about 4 mm. long and broad. Petals ob-long, tapering towards the blunt apex, densely golden-sericeous on the outside, especially near the base, 10-15 mm. long and 5-6 mm. broad. Stamens with con-nectives 1.5 mm. long, disk velutinous. (Fruit unknown).
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