Small tree, glabrous inflorescences excepted; young branchlets soon covered with reddish-brown, rough, splitting bark. Leaves ovate-or elliptic-oblong, gradually attenuate and subacute, cuneate into the petiole to nearly rounded at the base, coriaceous, olivaceous when dry, shining, entire or obscurely and distantly denticulate, (7-)8-12 by (3-)4-5.5 cm; midrib prominent beneath, nerves 7-8 pairs, curved, prominent on both sides as are the densely reticulate veins; petiole rugose, 5-7 mm. Racemes solitary, slender, curved, 10-18 cm, yellowish-or grey-appressed-pilose. Flowers solitary, 10-merous, laxly arranged. Pedicel 0.5 mm. Bract very small, persistent. Calyx-tube narrow-funnel-shaped, grey-pubescent, nearly 5 mm. Sepals linear, acute, pubescent in anthesis c. 2 by 0.3 mm. Petals very similar to the sepals, slightly wider below, some of them up to 3 mm. Disk-glands fused, nearly covering the apex of the ovary. Filaments c. 1 mm, glabrous. Ovary conical, short, tomentose. Styles 3-4, short, glabrous.
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