Shrub to 4 m. tall, the younger branches minutely and sparsely stellate-canes-cent; petioles 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic or oblong, 10-16 cm. long, about two-fifths as wide, acuminate to a blunt tip, entire or somewhat sinuate, acute at the base, glabrous and puncticulate above, glabrous beneath, 3-nerved; panicle about 1 dm. long and usually somewhat wider, branched from the base; flowers sessile or very shortly pediceled; hypanthium 1.3 mm. long to the torus, sparsely and minutely stellate; calyx-tube prolonged 0.4 mm., truncate, the minute exterior teeth scarcely projecting; petals white, oblong, 3-3.5 mm. long; anthers dimorphic, about 3 or about 2.5 mm. long, the connective of the larger expanded at base into a large dorsal lobe with its sides deflexed around the filament, that of the smaller prolonged at base into one dorsal and two lateral lobes about equal in size; stigma truncate.
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