Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, or with some appressed hairs beneath, acuminate with cuneate to cordate base and entire to denticulate margin, obovate to elliptic, 9-13 by 4½-5 cm; nerves 7-10 pairs; petiole 10-17 mm. Flowers in a raceme to 6 cm, axis pubescent to tomentose, glabrescent. Bracts and bracteoles soon caducous, not seen. Calyx glabrous, divided into ± semi-orbicular cordately based c. 2 mm long lobes. Corolla 8-10 mm. Stamens more than 100. Disk 5-glandular, with the broadly conical style base soft hairy. Ovary tomentose, 2-3 mm high; style glabrous, c. 1 mm. Fruit (only young fruits seen) ± elliptic, 15 by 8 mm. Embryo probably straight.
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