Small tree; tips of the branchlets fuscous-tomentose, early glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate, long and gradually acuminate towards the apex, rather obtuse, cuneate towards the base and rather distinctly decurrent, thinly subcoriaceous, olivaceous-greenish when dry, shining and, the midrib excepted, glabrous above; very young ones sparsely set with subferrugineous, appressed hairs beneath, but glabrescent, finally glabrous, entire, 7-14 by 2-3.5 cm; midrib slightly raised above, distinctly so beneath, nerves c. 10 pairs, rather straight and parallel, curved and joined together near the margin, distinctly prominent beneath only, reticulations very dense and rather prominent on both faces; petiole somewhat flattened, ± winged, glabrous, 2-10 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, dense, 12-14 cm, rather densely rufous-ferrugineous hairy in all parts; rhachis 1-1.5 mm across. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, subglabrous, c. 2 mm. Pedicels c. 2 mm, mostly in twos and connate halfway. Perianth white, slender, (13-) 14-15 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb ellipsoid 1.5 mm diam. Anthers c. 2 mm. Disk glands thick, subquadrangular, free, close, forming a ring. Ovary rufous-tomentose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit not known.
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