Trees to 5 m tall, the branchlets slender, terete, glabrate to puberulent. Leaves oblong to ovate oblong, 6.0-19.5 cm long, 2.0-8.5 cm wide, deltoid to obtuse at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1.7 cm long, widely cuneate to subobtuse at the base, occasionally inequilateral, the costa immersed or somewhat prominu-lous above, prominulous beneath, smooth, the lateral veins ca. 10, the middle veins to 2 cm apart, arcuate ascending, often with parallel intermediate evanes-cent veins, thinly coriaceous, usually drying gray or tan gray, glabrate but often rufous puberulent on the costa or on the lateral veins; petioles to 2.5 cm long, to 0.18 cm wide; stipules briefly or almost completely connate, cylindrical, to 0.8 cm long, each part 2-lobed at the apex, the lobes obtuse, each shorter than the sheath, stiffly scarious, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescences terminal, pyram-idal paniculate, to 45 cm long, the peduncles absent or elongate, to 0.2 cm wide at the base, sinuous, glabrous, the branches opposite, spreading or reflexed, well spaced, the lowermost to 10.5 cm long, the secondary branches floriferous, paired, opposite, well spaced, at right angles to the secondary branches, the bracts subulate, to 0.5 cm long, reflexed, persistent, the cymules few flowered, spreading. Flowers with the hypanthium rotund, to 1.3 mm long, puberulent, the calycine cup ca. 0.3 mm long, glabrous and with minute appressed rotund glands within, the calycine teeth 5, subequal, deltoid, to 0.3 mm long, acute, puberulent marginally and without; corolla white or cream maroon, the tube linear cylindri-cal, to 12 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, glabrous outside and in except villosulose at the anther attachment position, the lobes 5, narrow oblong, cucullate, glabrous, petaloid; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, ca. 1.7 mm long, occasionally minutely apiculate, dorsifixed, the filaments short, attached near the base of the tube; stigmas 2, linear, to 2 mm long, the style compressed, 4-7 mm long. Fruits (fragmentary) subrotund, to 3 mm in diam., smooth, black, lightly ribbed.
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