Small tree; branchlets terete, red-brown. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, broadly and obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate and decurrent into the petiole, firmly chartaceous, glabrous, brown when dry, slightly paler beneath, somewhat shining on both faces, entire, (16-)21-30 by (6½-)7½-10(-13) cm; midrib prominent specially beneath, nerves 8-9 pairs, curved-ascending and excurrent along the margin, not anastomosing, slightly raised above, sharply so beneath, reticulations dense, minutely elevated on both faces; petiole 4-5 by 3-4 mm, rugose. Racemes from the upper axils, densely flowered nearly to the base, 14-22 cm, rather densely short-appressedly rufescent hairy on the rhachis, laxly or very laxly so on pedicels and perianths; rhachis terete, 1.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate, very acute, minute. Pedicels mostly in twos and connate at the base, 2-3 mm. Perianth 14-15 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb ellipsoid 1 1/3 mm diam. Anthers 2 mm. Disk glands broadly oblong or subquadrangular, free or coherent at the base. Ovary glabrous; style slender. Fruit not known.
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