Treelet 3-4 m. Branchlets glabrous, the tips not seen. Leaves broadly lanceolate or subovate-lanceolate, gradually acuminate and obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base and decurrent along a very short petiole, coriaceous, dilutely brown and somewhat shining when dry, glabrous, entire, slightly revolute at the margin, 20-32 by 7-11 cm; midrib thick, prominent on both faces, nerves 9-10(-11) pairs, curved-ascending, joined near the edge, mostly distinctly impressed above in dry specimens, prominent beneath, reticulations very dense, minutely raised on both faces; petiole rugose, 4-6 by 2.5-4 mm. Racemes apparently ramiflorous, slender, 25-43 cm, very laxly set with flowers, rather densely covered with long, ferrugineous, appressed hairs; rhachis c. 1 mm diam. Bracts minute, lanceolate, c. 1 mm, mostly early caducous. Pedicels 2-3 mm, solitary or in twos, free or connate at the very base. Perianth white, 22-25 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm diam. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands broadly ovate, free. Ovary subglobose, rufous-pilose. Style very slender, glabrous. Fruit not known.
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