Twigs angular, glossy light brown, glabrous; branchlets terete, zig-zag. Stipules 7 mm long, brown, striate. Leaves probably spirally arranged, subsessile to ¾ cm petiolate; blade (sub)coria-ceous, 15-33 by 5½-10 cm, widest about the middle; base blunt to obtuse and subcordate, top long-acuminate; midrib strong and prominent, veins regularly curved with c. 1½ cm between, reticulation distinct beneath, more or less scalariform; margin crenate; surfaces dull, and glabrous from the beginning. Flowers with several in lax lateral racemes 1-1½ cm long, bracts 2-3 mm long, pedicels 6-7 mm, jointed just above the middle. Sepals thin, 3½-5 by 2½-4½ mm, glabrous or nearly so. Petals thin, 6-9 by 2-3½ mm, glabrous. Androecium glabrous, filamental tube fleshy and distinctly 5-lobed, the filaments as iong or shorter, anthers with a triangular dorsal appendage 1-2 times as long as the cells; ventral appendages none. Pistil club-shaped, brown-puberulous in the basal ½-⅔ part; ovules 6. Fruit unknown.
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