Small fastigiate tree, 3 m; branchlets robust, the youngest parts subangular and laxly covered by very short, appressed, rufescent hairs, older ones terete, glabrous, all dark brown. Leaves broadly elliptic-to obovate-oblong, broadly attenuate to rounded at the apex, with a terminal blackish gland, mostly cordate or rounded at the base or nearly auriculate, subsessile, thick-coriaceous, olivaceous-yellowish to dark brown when dry, ± shining above, dull beneath, entire or occasionally with 1-3 minute glandular teeth on both sides, glabrous, slightly revolute at the margin, 15-23 by (7-)8-11 cm; midrib slightly prominent above, very stout and prominent beneath, nerves (8-)9-10 pairs, straight in their lower part, divided or dissolute into veins before reaching the edge, ± distinctly anastomosing, prominent on both sides, reticulations rather dense and conspicuous on both faces; petiole 3-5 by 4 mm, rugulose. Racemes axillary, ramiflorous or cauline, solitary, 10-14 cm, dense-flowered, rather densely appressedly rufous-pilose on rhachis and pedicels, less so on the perianth; rhachis robust, c. 2 mm diam., terete. Bracts ovate-acuminate, 1-1.5 mm, hairy. Pedicels stoutish, 3-4(-5) mm, mostly in twos or fours, free or connate at the base. Perianth white, sweet-scented, 12-13(-14) mm, tube ½-3/5 mm, limb clavate, 1.5 mm diam. Anthers 2 mm. Disk glands ovate, connate at the base. Ovary glabrous. Immature fruit obliquely subglobose, apiculate, slightly contracted at the base.
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