Small tree (?), the branches glabrous. Leaves with the petioles to 15 mm long, canaliculate above, rounded beneath, short-strigose; blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, more or less rounded to attenuate (and somewhat oblique?) at the base, long-acuminate at the apex, remotely crenate along the maYrgins, the crenations distinctly glandular below, 14-20.5 cm long and 4.5-7.5 cm wide, char-taceous, distinctly 3-nerved from the base, sparsely short-strigose beneath especially along the prominent main nerves, the secondary nerves transversely subparallel and prominulous. Flowers light green, in short, axillary racemes, the (fruiting) pedicels to 12 mm long, terete, rather thick, articulated close to the base, densely and rather stiff-puberulous; sepals (surrounding the fruit) unequal, broadly ovate, apparently shortly united at the base, obtuse at the apex, 11-13 mm long and 9-13 mm wide, rather fleshy, tomentellous outside, glabrous inside in the middle but tomentellous towards the margins; petals (surrounding the fruit) ovate, obtuse, 11 mm long and 5-6 mm wide, rather fleshy, tomentellous outside, puberu-lous inside; stamens not seen; receptacle densely short-hirsute (the hairs ca 1 mm long). Fruit globose, longitudinally several-lobed, ca 1 cm in diam, apiculate (base of persistent style), the pericarp thin, brittle, blackish, glabrous, more or lessshiny, incompletely several-locular; seeds to 4.5 mm long, the testa brown, shiny, thin.
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