Trees, to 8 m tall or shrubs, the twigs terete, puberulent, ultimately finely velutinous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves ovate oblong or sagittate, 6-9 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, acute to widely deltoid at the apex, acuminate, the acumen short, somewhat vague, obtuse to widely deltoid at the apex, acuminate, the acumen short, somewhat vague, obtuse to widely cuneate at the base, the costa promi-nulous above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 6-8, arcuate, with short, white, appressed, striate, densely appressed hairs on the costa and the veins beneath, the intervenal areas lineolate but not conspicuously so, concolorous, membranous; petioles slender, 1-3 cm long, ca. 0.1 cm wide, appressed villosu-lose; stipules not seen. Inflorescences axillary, to 3.5 cm long, the peduncle stout, to 1 cm long, velutinous, the flowers few, the cymes 3-flowered (fide Standley 1928) crowded at the end of the peduncle. Flowers sessile, villose; hypanthium broader than long, 1 mm long, the calycine cup turgid, cupuliform, ca. 3 mm long, truncate, edentate; corolla white, the tube narrowly funnelform, to 2.2 cm long, to 0.2 cm wide, carnose, villose outside, glabrous within, the lobes 5, ob-long, to 5 mm long, to 3.5 mm wide, obtuse, the margin with occasional shallow notches; stamens 5, sessile, the anthers narrowly oblong, obtuse, acutely sagittate at base, attached ca. 3 mm below the mouth, the ovarian disc cylindrical, 1.3 mm long, villosulose at the base, truncate, the style linear, ca. 7.5 mm long. Fruits not seen.
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