Small tree, c. 8 m; tips of the branchlets dark ferrugineous-tomentose, older part less densely pilose, brownish, finally glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, broadly attenuate, subacuminate or obtuse, or rounded at the apex, cuneate but not decurrent on the petiole, sometimes slightly inequilateral, subcoriaceous, greenish-yellow when dry, younger ones covered with a rather crisp rusty tomentum on the midrib above and on the whole surface underneath, specially on the midrib and the nerves, mature ones glabrous and shining above, rusty-hairy beneath on midrib and nerves, glabrescent on the intervenium, entire, (9-) 14-20 by (5-)7-11 cm; midrib prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves 8-12 pairs, lower ones ± straight, upper ones ± curved and rather distinctly anastomosing before the edge, deeply impressed above in the mature leaves as are the laxly areolate veins, distinctly raised beneath; petiole stout, i persistently tomentose, finally glabrescent and rugose, 1.2-1.8 by 2.5 mm, base very thick. Racemes ramiflorous, solitary or in pairs, firm, very dense-flowered nearly to the base, rusty ± appressed-tomentose; rhachis 3 mm diam. at the base. Bracts ovate-acuminate, 1 mm. Pedicels rather robust, mostly in twos, connate in the lower third, 4-5 mm. Perianth white, c. 16 mm, dilated at the base, tube 1 mm across, limb clavate, subacute, 1.8 mm diam. Anthers 3.5 mm. Disk glands ovate-oblong, retuse, free, close. Ovary glabrous; style slender. Fruit not known.
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