Small tree. Branchlets subterete. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic-oblong to-lanceolate, 4½-9.5 by 2-4½ cm; base attenuate or cuneate; apex acuminate; nerves 6-10 pairs; petiole 6-10 mm. Inflorescences simple or elongate-paniculate cymes, rarely 1-flowered; peduncle 1-2^ cm. Bracteoles at the base of the flowers deltoid, transparent, the margin reddish brown, short-fimbriate, c. 1⅓ mm long. Calyx lobes suborbicular or broadly obovate, 2.5-3.5 mm ø, the lower half rather thick and slightly wrinkled outside, the upper half irregularly splitting, erose or short-lacerate. Corolla whitish, c. 4.5 mm long, divided at about the upper half, lobes almost oblong, obtuse. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the corolla; filaments free for c. 1⅓ mm; anthers dorso-basifixed, broad-ovoid, 4/5 by 2/3 mm, obtuse, the lower half free. Pistil c. 2.25 mm long; ovary ovoid and gradually narrowed into a cylindric style; stigma discoid or slightly capitate.
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