Shrub to 4 m. tall, glabrous throughout; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades oblong to oblong-obovate, up to 20 cm. long and 8 cm. wide, abruptly caudate-acuminate, entire, narrowed to an obtuse base, minutely but densely verruculose-puncticulate above, slightly 3-pli-nerved; panicle pyramidal, 5-15 cm. long, the flowers mostly in clusters of three at the end of the branches, the terminal on a pedicel about 2 mm. long, the lateral sessile at the end of a very short branch; hypanthium narrowly campanulate, 3.5-4 mm. long; calyx-tube slightly flaring, about 1 mm. long, the lobes nearly obsolete, the exterior teeth lacking; petals white, oblong-elliptic, retuse, about 5 mm. long; stamens dimorphic; filaments about 6 or about 3.5 mm. long; anthers subulate, with obscurely convolute thecae, the larger nearly straight, about 6 mm. long, the smaller incurved, about 5 mm. long; connective thickened toward the base and curved around the base of the thecae as two small lateral lobes; style slender, about 12 mm. long; stigma capitellate.
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