Tree to 10 m. Leaves oblong, elliptic, lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acuminate or acute, rarely obtuse, coriaceous; lamina mostly 7-17 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide; base obtuse or acute; secondary veins 6-8 pairs; petiole 3-8 mm long; stipules deltoid, c. 1.2. mm long. Cymes usually 4-6-branched, to 15 cm long, many-flowered; pedicels 4-10 mm long. Sepals ±semicircular, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Petals suborbicular, recurved, 4-4.5 mm long, red. Staminal filaments recurved, c. 1 mm long. Ovary with 10 ovules per locule. Capsule c. 10 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide. Seeds c. 10 mm long.
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