Shrub or small tree to 15 m., though generally less; young branches glabrous or sparsely pubescent.. Leaf-lamina elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, 4.8–14.5 cm. long, 1.6–4.8 cm. wide, the base ± cuneate, the apex acuminate, glabrous, margin shallowly serrate-crenate to subentire, lateral veins 6–9 pairs; petiole 6–14 mm. long, glabrous.. Inflorescence a broad terminal thyrse, generally with fewer than 20 flowers, the rachis short, usually 15–32 mm. long, puberulous; flowers yellow or brownish yellow, nodding at maturity; bracts and bracteoles ovate to linear-lanceolate, 1–2 mm. long, margin ciliate; peduncle 5–11 mm. long, sparsely puberulous; pedicels slender, 2–3 mm. long, sparsely puberulous.. Sepals ovate, 2–3 mm. long, margin ciliate.. Petals oval-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5–6 mm. long, margin ciliate.. Stamens 4–4.5 mm. long, the filaments fused together into a tube in the lower half, with a free rather irregular margin; connective-appendage elliptic-lanceolate, ± equal in length to the anthers; thecal appendages 2, long, ± two-thirds the length of the connective-appendage.. Ovary glabrous; style 3–4 mm. long.. Capsule 3-lobed, 14–18 mm. long, finely rugose.. Fig. 4/1–4.
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