Small tree; branchlets glabrous, angular at the tips, later subterete. Leaves obovate-oblong or obovate, very broadly attenuate and obtuse to nearly rounded at the apex, cuneate and decurrent into the very short petiole, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, black or blackish-brownish when dry, shining above, not or slightly so beneath, glabrous, entire, 14-17 by 5-6 cm; midrib slightly prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves c. 1 pairs steeply ascending from the midrib, rather straight in their lower part, curved in the upper one and obscurely anastomosing, prominent on both faces, reticulations dense, finely raised on both faces; petiole stout, c. 2 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, robust, rather laxly flowered, c. 42 cm incl. the peduncle 2 cm, laxly appressedly rufous-pilose on rhachis and pedicels; rhachis subterete, c. 2.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acuminate, minute. Pedicels mostly in twos, connate up to 1/3 their length, rather slender, 4-5 mm. Perianth c. 20 mm, glabrous, tube c. 0.8 mm, limb elongate-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm diam. Anthers 3.5 mm. Disk glands ovate, free, close. Ovary glabrous. Fruit unknown.
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