Shrub? 3-5 m.; branchlets angled, reddish, early densely minutely ferruginous-pubescent, quickly glabrescent or glabrous. Leaves alternate; petioles stout, canaliculate, glabrescent except for residue of dense pubescence in groove, to 1.5 cm. long; blades glabrous to glabrescent, membranaceous, opaque above, darker beneath, oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic, to 38 cm. long and 6-10 (-13) cm. broad, the base roundish, obtuse or obtusely cuneate, the apex caudate-acuminate, penninerved, the costa broad, impressed above, the lateral nerves 12-16 pairs, rather obscure above, prominently elevated beneath, diverging from the costa at an angle of 450, the reticulation visible, only slightly elevated above, more prom-inently so beneath. Inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 15-20 cm. long, pubescent becoming glabrescent, the peduncle to 8 cm. long. Flowers to 3 mm. long, glabrescent, the pedicel glabrescent, not more than 2 mm. long, the perianth-tube well defined, the lobes ovate-elliptic or even broadly ovate, obtuse, somewhat thin, papillose within, 1.25 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II 0.8 to 1 mm. long, the anthers ovate, subrotund or obtuse, twice the length of the filaments; those of ser. III 1.25-1.7 mm. long, the anthers ovate, obtuse, the slightly shorter filaments bearing sessile subreniform basal glands; gynaecium glabrous, 1.7-2 mm. long, the ovary ovoid to subglobose, equaling the style, the stigma usually inconspicuous, obtuse. Fruit black, fleshy, ellipsoid, 3.3 X 1.5 cm., the subtending cupule shallow, disk-like, the margin undulate, 8 mm. long, 8 mm. in diameter, and less than 2 mm. deep, the pedicel very short, slightly enlarged to 2 mm. at the apex.
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