A tree 10-15 m. high; branchlets ferruginous-sericeous. Leaves on petioles 3-7 mm. long, membranaceous, more or less blackening when dried, smooth above and hirsute at first at the midrib but soon quite glabrous, with appressed rigid hairs beneath, finally presumably glabrous, oblong or oblong-obovate, broadest at the middle or a little above the middle, acute at the base, abruptly contracted into a broad obtuse cusp 1 cm. long, 20-28 cm. long and 6-9 cm. broad. Flowers solitary or 2 in the axils of persistent or fallen leaves; pedicels sericeous, about 3 cm. long. Petals finally horizontally expanded, ovate and rotundate at the apex, the outer densely sericeous outside, tomentellous on the upper half inside, about 1 cm. long, the inner tomentellous outside and glabrous inside, a little smaller than the outer. Monocarps very numerous, ellipsoid to obovoid, shortly acute, 9-10 mm. long and 5.0-5.5 mm. across, abruptly tapering into a thin stipe 5-7 mm. long.
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