Branchlets practically glabrous, brown or reddish-brown. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, gradually attenuate towards the apex, ± acute, shortly cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, chartaceous, brownish and shining on both faces when dry, entire or obscurely and remotely glandular-denticulate, glabrous, 15-22 by 4-6 cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves 16-20 pairs, straight and ± parallel in their lower part, curved upwards and rather distinctly anastomosing before the edge, slightly prominent on both faces, reticulations very fine and dense, well visible on both faces; petiole c. 1 cm, not winged in the lowest 3-5 mm, thickened. Racemes axillary, slender, rather dense-flowered, 9-15 cm; rhachis sub terete, 1 mm diam., glabrous as are the pedicels, or with some scattered appressed very short hairs. Bracts minute, early caducous. Pedicels slender, in twos, connate at the base, 2(-3) mm. Perianth slender, c. 9 mm, glabrous, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb elongate-ellipsoid c. 1 mm diam. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands nearly quadrangular, free or coherent at the base. Ovary glabrous; style slender. Fruit unknown.
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