ulate, the costa impressed above, prominent beneath, the primary lateral veins 11-15 pairs, prominent and sharply reticulate, impressed above, elevated be-neath, punctate with small rounded glands. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, slender, minutely puberulent, laxly bipinnately-paniculate, few-flowered, 2.5-7 cm long, the pedicels slender, to 3.5 mm long. Staminate flowers usually umbellate, sometimes appearing subracemose, 5-merous bracts; thin, slender, falling early; buds oblongish, ca. 3 mm long; sepals thin, nearly free, ovate-elliptic, 1-1.3 mm long, punctate with conspicuous reddish glands, the hyaline margin wide, minutely erose, rounded apically; petals thin, connate E/n at the base, 3-3.7 mm long, lanceolate-elliptic, asymmetric, conspicuously punctate with large reddish oblongish glands; stamens attached medially in the corolla tube, 2-2.5 mm long, the filaments filiform, ca. 1 mm long, the anthers linear-lanceolate, 1.2-1.4 mm long, concolorous, obtusish; ovary abortive, glabrous, ovoid, the short style slender, 0.4-0.75 mm long, the stigma minute.
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Shrubs, the branchlets usually slender, minutely puberulent at first, glabrate, subterete. Leaves petiolate, the petioles 1-1.5 cm long, slender, canaliculate, puberulent beneath at first in young leaves; leaf blades glabrous, membra-naceous, elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, 9-20 cm long and 3-7 cm wide, acuminate or subabruptly acuminate apically, acute basally, the margin cren-
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