Tree; branchlets rather stout, the younger parts rufous-or greyish-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves obovate to oblong-obovate, shortly acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate at the base, and somewhat decurrent in the upper part of the petiole, firmly subcoriaceous, brownish-or greenish-yellowish when dry, very shining above, pallid and +-dull beneath, rufous-tomentose initially both at the midrib and petiole, glabrous elsewhere, entire, (5-)6-10(-12) by 3-5(-6.5) cm; midrib slightly prominent above, conspicuously raised beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs moderately curved-ascending, obscurely anastomosing near the edge, prominent on both faces, reticulations dense and distinctly elevated on both faces; petiole 1-1.5 (-2.5) cm. Racemes axillary from rufous-tomentose branchlets of the past year, ± laxly set with flowers to nearly their base, 8-10 cm, rufous-tomentose; rhachis stout, c. 2 mm diam. Bracts ovate, nearly 2 mm, ± concealed in the crisped tomentum. Pedicels stoutish, mostly in twos and connate up to their middle, 3-5 mm. Perianth rather thick, rigid, 10-11 mm, tube 1.5 mm across, limb shortly clavate, 2 mm diam. Anthers c. 1.5 mm. Disk glands oblong-ovate, free, spaced. Ovary globose, rufous-villous; style slender, glabrous. Fruit subovoid-globose, blackish when dry, glabrous, densely minutely verruculose, l.8-2 cm diam., pericarp coriaceous c. 2 mm.
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