Tree about 15 m high; leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, rather abruptly and narrowly acuminate, about 10-22 cm long, 4-12 cm wide, glabrous above, very closely and finely sericeous-strigose with pale hairs beneath; primary lateral veins about 9-13 pair, not becoming crowded and obscure near the base of the blade, as they do in many species; secondary lateral veins, except those near the midrib, nearly perpendicular to the primary ones, but also somewhat sinuous and often branched; petioles about 1.5-6 cm long; flowers few in the axils, the closely seri-ceous-strigose pedicels about 4-5 mm long; sepals 4, about 3.5 mm long, broadly elliptic-ovate, the outer closely hairy on the back, the inner glabrous except for a strip down the middle of the back; corolla about 3.7-4.5 mm long, the lobes a little shorter than the tube, evidently fringed-ciliolate; filaments attached about at the middle of the corolla-tube, and trace raised and conspicuous to the base; anthers about 1 mm long, short-cuspidate; staminodes about 1 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, ciliolate like the corolla-lobes, and alternating with them, nearly or quite in the same series; ovary densely hairy, 4-loculate, the style a little over 2 mm long; fruit unknown.
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