Tree to 10 m high, the branchlets glabrous. Leaves with the petioles to 1 cm long, caniliculate above, glabrous, the stipules broadly triangular, ca 1 mm long, caducous; blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, slightly inequilateral, the base oblique, acute to obtuse on one side, + rounded on the other side, the apex obtuse to acuminate, the margins entire to indistinctly crenulate, to 12.5 cm long and 4 cm wide, membranous to chartaceous, pellucid-punctate, glabrous or inconspicuously puberulous when young, the costa prominent beneath. Inflorescences axillary, dichasial, few-flowered, the peduncles inconspicuously puberulous to glabrous, the bracts broadly triangular, ca 1 mm long; buds globose, minutely to inconspicuously puberulous. Flowers white, the pedicels slender, 9-13 mm long, articulated 2-3 mm above the base, inconspicuously puberulous especially below the articulation to glabrous; sepals 4, broadly elliptic or obovate, rounded at the apex, 8-9 mm long and 5-7 mm wide, reflexed at anthesis, minutely puberulous to glabrescent, cadu-cous; stamens so, the filaments filiform, unequal, 2.5-4.5 mm long, finely and softly puberulous, the anthers broadly elliptic, ca 0.5-0.7 mm long; gynoecium ca 4-5 mm long, the ovary broadly ovoid, to 3 mm in diam, tomentellous, attenuate at the apex into a short, undivided style, the stigma capitate. Capsule globose or nearly so, to 3 cm in diam, densely and minutely ferruginous-tomentellous, the pericarp to 5 mm thick and fleshy, many-scaled.
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