Shrubs or trees to 6 m tall, the branchlets terete, white tomentose to glabrous. Leaves elliptic to subovate, 2-15 cm long, 1.3-7.0 cm wide, acute to subacumi-nate at the apex, attenuate basally, the lateral veins 6-9, strongly arcuate as-cending, stiffly papyraceous to subcoriaceous, discolorous, the tertiary veins per-pendicular; petioles scarcely measurable or to 1.2 cm long, white tomentose to glabrate; stipules deltoid, 3-5 mm long, 2.0-6.5 cm wide, the cusp ca. 2 mm long, tomentose to glabrate. Inflorescences terminal, axillary, the peduncle to 4 mm long, the dichasia compound, tomentose to glabrate. Flowers pentamerous, ped-icellate, the pedicels to 7 mm long; hypanthium small, rotund, ca. 2.5 mm long, truncate, white tomentose, the calycine cup ca. 1.5 mm long, the lobes 5, subu-late, ca. 8 mm long, ca. 2.5 mm wide, petaloid, densely sericeous within at the base; corolla white, the tube 11-18 mm long, petaloid, villosulose outside, mod-erately so within except dense near the mouth, the latter with a ringlike callosity, the lobes 4, subrotund, ca. 5 mm in diam., 1 lobe ca. 3 mm in diam., anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm long, the filaments ca. 2 mm long; ovarian disc ringlike, ca. 3 mm deep, the style linear, ca. 8 mm long. Fruits rotund, to I cm in diam., sparsely tomentose, dehiscing loculicidally, the calycine lobes conspicuous, persistent.
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