Tree to 16 m. high; branchlets thick, densely ferruginous-tomentose becoming grayish, somewhat angled. Leaves alternate, occasionally near the tips of the branchlets becoming opposite or subopposite; petioles 1.5 (-2.5) cm. long; blades usually ferruginous-tomentose throughout, quickly becoming glabrous above ex-cept for venation, greenish brown when-dried, coriaceous, elliptic or ovate, (6-) 10-15 (-35) cm. long and 3-6 (-15) cm. broad, the base obtuse usually, the apex obscurely or sharply acuminate, the acumen often to 2.5 cm. long, penninerved, ferruginous-pubescent throughout, impressed above, elevated beneath, the nerves 7-9 (-14) pairs, impressed above, elevated beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of 35-450, the transverse venation impressed above, prominent beneath. Inflorescence axillary or often subterminal, paniculate, 8 (-20) cm. long, densely ferruginous-tomentose, few-to many-flowered, the peduncles 5-7 cm. long. Flowers to 15 mm. in diameter, fragrant, the pedicels to 2 mm. long, the perianth white, pubescent, the lobes fleshy, pubescent, (5-) 7 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 1.7 mm. long, the anthers broadly ovate, obtuse, the connective tissue papillose, the filaments short and comparatively slender, those of ser. III to 1.7-mm. long, the filaments conspicuously biglandular; staminodia 0.3 mm. long; gynaecium glabrous, 2.3 mm. long, the ovary ovoid or obovoid, slightly larger than the style, the stigma obtuse, discoid. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, to 12 mm. long and 8 mm. in diameter; the cupule hemispherical, about I4 the length of the entire fruit.
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