Tree to 30 m, 40 cm ø. Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, mostly narrowly elliptic, with attenuate base, (coarsely) crenate margin and hardly acumi-nate apex, (5½-)7-13(-22) by 2½-5(-6½) cm; nerves (7-) 10-16(-18) pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 6-15 mm. Raceme to 10 cm, but often shorter, axis (sparsely) pubescent. Bracts very soon caducous, appressedly pubescent, obovate or elliptic, 1-4 mm; bracteoles falling after the bracts, sometimes rather long persistent, less hairy, (broadly) ovate to narrowly elliptic, 1-2½ mm. Pedicels pubescent, at most 6 mm but often shorter. Calyx glabrous, or some appressed hairs on the base of the tube, 1½-2½ mm long, the lobes c.¼ mm shorter, sometimes ciliolate. Corolla c. 4(-5) mm. Stamens 60 to more than 100. Disk 5-glandular, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 1-1½ mm high; style glabrous or with few hairs, but the conical base soft-hairy, 4-5 mm. Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly narrowed towards the apex, 10-16 by 5-7 mm; stone 1-celled, smooth or faintly ribbed. Seeds 1 (or 2), filling the whole stone, ovoid, with straight embryo.
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