Shrubs or slender trees to 15 m high, the branchlets stout, apically tomentose with minute closely appressed stellate trichomes. Leaves with petioles to 1.8 cm long; leaf blades elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblanceolate-elliptic, 8-15 cm long and 3.5-7 cm wide, subabruptly acuminate apically, acute or acuminate This content downloaded from 192.104.39.2 on Tue, 7 May 2013 17:30:52 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions304 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 58 and decurrent basally, subchartaceous, entire or obscurely crenulate, black-punctate, striolate, minutely appressed stellate-lepidote beneath at first and along the petiole, glabrescent early, the costa nearly plane above, elevated beneath, the primary lateral veins slender. Inflorescences axillary, rarely terminal (White 156, MO), paniculate, 5-18 cm long, usually shorter than the leaves, slender-pedunculate usually to the middle or above, 1-or 2-branched, sparsely and minutely puberulent at first, glabrescent early; pedicels slender, to 1 cm long. Flowers sub-umbellate to corymbose, to 7 mm long at anthesis, the corolla minutely papillose-puberulent; sepals minutely puberulent, densest apically, lanceolate-triangular, 1.2-2 mm long, acuminate, densely red-black punctate; petals linear-lanceolate, ca. 7 mm long, papillose-tomentose on the inner surface except basally, densely black-punctate in lines; stamens 3-4 mm long, the filaments thick, black-punctate, to 2 mm long, the anthers ovate-lanceolate, to 2.75 mm long, dorsifixed ca. 1/4 above the base, tapering to the acute apex, conspicuously black-punctate dorsally, the glands extending down into the lobes; ovary ovoid, glabrous or sparsely short villous apically and at the base of the style; the ovules 7-9, uniseriate, enclosed, the placenta obovoid, apiculate, the style 4.5-6 mm long, black-punctate in lines. Fruit depressed-globose, drying ca. 8 mm in diameter.
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