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Leaves petiolate; lamina (6) 8.5–15 (19) x 3–7 cm., obovate to oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, ± bluntly serrate, sometimes almost entire near the base, coriaceous, glabrous above, the main veins pubescent below, with venation prominent on both surfaces and sessile brown glands on the lower one; petiole 5–20 (30) mm. long, channelled above, pubescent; stipules c. 6–8 mm. long, subulate, pubescent, soon caducous.
Stamen-tube with free margin produced to form narrow lobes behind at least some of the anthers in each flower, glabrous; anthers ± sessile, ovoid, pubescent or glabrous, with an ovate-obtuse, decurrent connective-appendage, and entire, bifid or paired thecal appendages.
Inflorescence compound, terminal, narrowly paniculate to triangular, with few-flowered cymose clusters at the ends of short lateral branches; peduncle stout, flattened, vertically ribbed, shortly brown-pilose.
Petals 3–4 mm. long, 11/2–2 times as long as the sepals, yellow, thick, oblong, obtuse, recurved above, slightly unequal, sparsely pubescent or almost glabrous.
Capsule 10–13 mm. long, dark red-brown, ± erect, 3-lobed, pubescent, ± smooth, coriaceous, several-seeded.
Branches terete, longitudinally ribbed and ± densely brownish-pubescent when young, eventually ± glabrous.
Sepals c. 2 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, not ribbed, pubescent or shortly pilose.
Ovary ± globose, densely pilose; style 11/2–2 times as long as the ovary.
Flowers ± pendulous, shortly pedicellate; pedicels shortly pilose.
Bracts triangular to lanceolate, shortly brown-pilose, persistent.
Shrub or small tree, 1.5–9 m. high; bark smooth, grey-brown.
Flower-buds ovoid or cylindric, pendulous.
Seeds c. 4–5 mm. long.
