Tree up to 12 m; tips of the branchlets rusty-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves oblong or lanceo-late-oblong, shortly abruptly acuminate and subacute at the apex, attenuate and distinctly decurrent at the base, dilutely yellowish green and shining above, brownish-olivaceous and dull beneath when dry, firmly subcoriaceous, glabrous„ entire, (9-) 10-15 by 4-5 cm; midrib slightly prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves 10-11 (-12) pairs coming from the midrib at c. 70-80°, rather straight in the lower part, curved towards the margin and distinctly anastomosing, slightly prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulations irregular and dense, raised on both faces; petiole stout, ½-1(-1⅓) cm. Racemes ramiflorous, c. 30 cm incl. the peduncle c. 10 cm, dense-flowered, rather densely covered with longish, appressed, ferrugineous hairs; rhachis 2-2.5 mm across. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, sometimes soon glabrescent, 2-3 mm, mostly early caducous. Pedicels rather slender, mostly in twos, free or connate up to the middle. Perianth deep plum-red, 20-23 mm, tube 2/3 mm diam., limb ellipsoid 2-2.5 mm diam. Anthers 2.5 mm. Disk glands thick, connate in the lower half, minutely punctate. Ovary densely rufous-pilose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit not known.
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