Small trees, to 5 m tall, the twigs terete, smooth, glabrous, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong or obovate oblong, 16-24 cm long, 7-10 cm wide, widely cuneate to subobtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.5 cm long, ulti-mately acute or obtuse, attenuate acute to somewhat rounded at the base, the costa slender, immersed, plane or somewhat prominulous above, proximally prominent beneath, the lateral veins 9-13, arcuate, thinly coriaceous, concolor-ous, glabrous; petioles stout, often curved, to 2.5 cm long, to 0.25 cm wide in the middle with a delicate adaxial wing, glabrous; stipules deltoid, to 5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide at the base, acute, stiffly scarious, rugulose, densely villose on the margin and within, otherwise glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal pan-iculate, shorter than the terminal leaves, epedunculate or with peduncles to 2.2 cm long, angular, pubescent, the branches disposed as 2-3 pairs, to 2 cm long, the flowers aggregated into subrotund cymules, ca. 1 cm in diam. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate; hypanthium subrotund, ca. 1 mm long, villosulose, with numerous oblong glands within, ca. 0.1 mm long, the lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, ca. 0.5 mm long; corolla white, the tube narrowly cylindrical, ca. 4 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide, glabrous outside, densely white villose within, the lobes 4, oblong, ca. 4 mm long, concave, ca. 1.5 mm wide, petaloid, glabrous; stamens 5, the anthers narrowly oblong, ca. 3.3 mm long, dorsifixed, the filaments plane, 0.6-1.5 mm long; stigmas 2, unequal, oblong, connate, ca. 1.5 mm long, the ovary oblong in cross section, the wall thick, the septum thick, the ovules several. Fruits sessile, rotund, ca. 1 cm in diam., the persistent calycine tube ca. 0.5 mm long, drying red, smooth, sparsely villose.
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