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Calyx 5–6 mm. long, campanulate, lobed to half-way or a little more into 5 deltoid reflexed lobes, with both pale and deep purple stellate hairs outside, inside densely pubescent with short simple somewhat stellate hairs mixed with subsessile glandular hairs.
Female flower: ovary ovoid, tomentose, with a ring of vestigial anthers at its base, on a glabrous gynophore c. 0·5 mm. long; style 1 mm. long, tomentose; stigmas recurved.
Flowers appearing before the leaves in narrowly pyramidal panicles 4–8 cm. long at the ends of the branches; branches of inflorescence densely purple-tomentose.
Follicles c. 5, 2·5 × 2 cm., ovoid, tomentellous outside, scarcely apiculate, on stipes 2–3 mm. long.
Male flower: stamens 10, in a capitate-globose cluster on a glabrous androphore c. 2 mm. long.
Tree 10–16 m. tall; young branches glabrous, with greyish bark.
Seeds not seen.
