Small tree or shrub, glabrous the inflorescences excepted. Leaves elliptic-obovate or oblong-obovate, broadly obtusely acuminate or subrotundate, attenuate into the petiole at the base, subcoriaceous, shining above, dull beneath, dark greyish-brownish when dry; nerves 6-7 pairs, distinctly prominent beneath, veins reticulate-prominent beneath only; petiole 3-6(-8) mm. Panicles branched from near the base, (4-)5-10(-12) cm long, lower branches 3-4 cm; rhachis and branches rather slender, greyish-ciliate-pubescent. Flowers white, 6-7-merous, solitary. Pedicels slender, c. 2.5 mm. Bract subulate, 1 mm. Calyx-tube short, rather narrow, 1.8 mm, ciliate. Sepals linear, 1.5-1.75 by 0.5 mm, subacute, densely covered with spreading hairs. Petals similar to the sepals but 1 mm wide, both accrescent up to 3 mm. Styles 4, hirsute nearly to their apex.
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