Tree 6-15 m. high; branchlets closely and minutely subferruginous-pubescent becoming grayish, outer cortex sometimes flaking off to reveal a dark reddish brown color. Leaves alternate; petioles short, slender, pubescent, less than 1 cm. long; blades sericeous beneath becoming minutely pubescent, often shining above, dull beneath, elliptic, occasionally oblong-elliptic, 7-11.5 cm. long and 2.5-6 cm. broad, the base obtuse and/or the lowermost portion attenuately cuneate, fre-quently recurved and almost decurrent, the apex obtuse to acutish or acuminate, penninerved, the costa slightly impressed above and somewhat obscure and slightly elevated beneath, the nerves not more than 4 or 5 (-7) pairs, slightly impressed above and somewhat obscure and slightly elevated beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of 35-45i?, the axillary glands pubescent. Inflorescence axillary or subterminal, paniculate, to 8 cm. long, comparatively few-flowered, minutely subferruginous-sericeous-tomentellous, the long peduncles stout, frequently up to 6 cm. long. Flowers large and conspicuous, to 15 mm. in diameter, the perianth-lobes elliptic or obovate-elliptic, acutish or obtuse, reflexed, very fleshy, papillose within, pubescent without, 4-5 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 1.25 (-1.5) mm. long, the anthers sessile or subsessile, rounded or broadly rounded-ovate, the fleshy papillose connective often one-third the entire length; those of ser. III 1.7 mm. long, the anthers broad, narrowing slightly into the thick filaments almost one-half their length, glands conspicuous, spreading, sessile, almost the length of the anthers; staminodia triquetrous, to 1 mm. long, the thick stipe nearly one-half the entire length; gynaecium glabrous, 1.7 mm. long, the ovary subglobose, two-thirds the entire length, the style short, the stigma triangular, discoid or obtuse, frequently decurrent. Fruit ellipsoid, 1.5 X 9 mm., the subtending cupule 4-5 mm. long, 8-10 mm. in diameter and 2-3 mm. deep, the pedicel about 5 mm. long, and 3-4 mm. in diameter at the apex.
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