Shrub or small tree to 12 m. tall, the younger stems ferruginous-stellate-tomentose, glabrescent in age; petioles slender, 2-5 cm. long; leaf-blades firm, ovate, 1-2 dm. long, about half as wide, caudate-acuminate, entire, broadly rounded at base, 5-nerved, glabrous and dull green above, beneath varying from cinereous with a close tomentum of stellate hairs to completely glabrous; panicle 5-10 cm. long, compact, much branched, the flowers in small terminal glomerules; hypan-thium campanulate, about 2.5 mm. long to the torus, cinereous-stellate, calyx-tube about 0.5 mm. long, obscurely 5-lobed; petals white, obovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, stellulate externally; stamens isomorphic or somewhat dimorphic; anthers stoutly subulate, 4-4.5 mm. long, somewhat incurved, with convolute thecae; connective simple or elevated into a dorsal ridge near the base, smooth or beset with sessile glands; filaments smooth or villosulous; style often villosulous.
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