Tree to 30 m. high; branchlets stout, glabrous, brown or maculate-brown. Leaves alternate or subverticillate; petioles brown, glabrous, thick, scarcely cana-liculate, up to 1.5 cm. long; blades glabrous, castaneous or olive-green, mem-branaceous becoming rigidly coriaceous, elliptic, (12-) 20-25 (-35) cm. long and 7 (-12) cm. broad, the base cuneate, the apex obtuse or obtusely subacumi-nate, the lateral nerves 7-9 pairs, diverging arcuately at an angle of 45-55? from the costa, the venation conspicuous, conspicuously elevated beneath, the minute reticulation prominent. Inflorescence of numerous panicles in axils of deciduous upper leaves, densely greenish-fulvous-whitish-pubescent, up to 10 cm. long, the peduncle 6 cm. long. Flowers tomentose, to 4 mm. long, with pedicels of equal length; perianth campanulate, the subequal lobes thick, up to 3 mm. long; stamens of ser. I & II often subpetaloid, up to 2.15 mm. long, those of ser. III with stiped glands; staminodia to 1.7 mm. long, subcordate, stipitate; gynaecium glabrous, to 2.8 mm. long, the ovary ovoid or subglobose, equal to or twice the length of the somewhat robust style, the stigma subtriangular, conspicuous. Fruit unknown, the subtending pedicel thickened and rough, up to 7 mm. long, bearing the expanded remnants of the perianth-lobes.
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