Shrubs, the branchlets stout, minutely ferruginous-puberulent at first, the apical buds with closely appressed rufous indument. Leaves with slender petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long; leaf blades oblanceolate or oblanceolate-elliptic, 12.5-18.5 cm long and 4.5-5.5 cm wide, subabruptly acuminate apically, acute or subacuminate basally, membranaceous, entire, at first sparingly puberulent on the lower surface, the appressed stellate trichomes minute, glabrescent, punctate, the glands rounded and lineate, the costa elevated beneath, nearly plane above, the primary lateral veins slender, 9 or 10 pairs, arcuately as-cending, anastomosing into the submarginal vein, openly reticulate. Inflo-rescences axillary, lax, long-pedunculate, bipinnately-paniculate, the panicles to 12 cm long, minutely papillose-puberulent, glabrate; pedicels slender, 5-7 mm long, minutely papillose-puberulent. Flowers subcorymbose, ca. 5 mm long at anthesis; sepals triangular, 1-1.3 mm long, acute, orange-red-punctate, minutely papillose-puberulent; petals lanceolate, ca. 5 mm long, papillose-puberu-lent dorsally, short villous-tomentose on the inner surface except for a small gla-brous basal area, reddish-punctate in lines; stamens 2.2-2.5 mm long, the filaments ca. 1.4 mm long, glabrous, not punctate, the anthers ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.4 mm long, acute apically, with a few-small red-black glands dorsally, dorsifixed ca. 1/3 above the base; ovary ovoid, smooth, tapering into the style, hirtellous apically and at the base of the style, a few short trichomes ex-tending up the style, the ovules 5 or 6, uniseriate, enclosed, the placenta obovoid, with minute red glands basally, the style ca. 4 mm long, punctate. Fruit depressed-globose.
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