Shrub or small tree to 6 m. tall, the younger branches, petioles, lower leaf-surface, panicle, and hypanthia thinly cinereous-tomentulose; branches strongly angled; petioles 1-4 cm. long; leaf-blades thin, oblong or ovate-oblong, 8-18 cm. long, about two-fifths as wide, obtuse to abruptly short-acuminate, entire, rounded at the base, glabrous above, 3-to 5-nerved; panicle usually dense, up to 15 cm. long; flowers sessile and secund; hypanthium campanulate, about 3 mm. long; calyx-tube scarcely prolonged, the calyx-lobes broadly triangular; petals 3-5 mm. long, ovate, minutely glandular-ciliate; stamens isomorphic; anthers linear, about 4 mm. long, the connective barely prolonged below the thecae into two deflexed lateral lobes and one minute dorsal lobe; stigma conic or punctiform.
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