Tree 5-10 m; branchlets terete, young parts rufous-ferrugineous-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves oblong, lanceolate-oblong, obovate-oblong or subelliptic-oblong, gradually rather shortly acuminate at the apex, obtuse or subacute, attenuate into the petiole at the base, ± firmly chartaceous, yellowish-green or pallid olivaceous when dry, entire or remotely subdenticulate towards the apex, glabrous, shining above, midrib tomentellous, dull beneath and densely rufous-ferrugineous-pilose on the midrib and nerves, less so on the intervenium, finally +-glabrescent, 5-14 by (l.8-)2½-5½ cm; midrib slightly elevated above, more distinctly so beneath, nerves (6-)7-8 (-10) pairs, curved and anastomosing near the edge, somewhat raised beneath only, reticulations rather dense, distinctly raised beneath only; petiole stoutish, tomentose (2/3-)1-1.5 cm. Racemes ramiflorous or axillary, dense, rusty-tomentose, 8-11 cm; rhachis 1.5-2 mm diam. Bracts ovate-sub-acuminate, 1-1.5 mm. Pedicels rather thick, 3-5 mm, ± connate up to the middle when set in twos. Perianth brownish outside, cream or creamy-yellow inside, (16-) 17-20 mm, tube 1.2-1.5 mm, limb gradually clavate, +-2.5 mm diam. Anthers c. 3 mm. Disk glands subquadrangular, ± connate in a ring. Ovary densely fulvous-ferrugineous-pilose; style slender, glabrous. Immature fruit subglobose, laxly rufous-pilose.
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