Tree about 10 m. high; growth above jorquette; primary branches ternate; leafy branches brownish, the hornotinous ferruginous-tomentose becoming glabrate; stipules linear-subulate. Leaves with a petiole 6-10 mm. long, ferruginous-tomen-tose; blade elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, attenuate near the obtuse or subob- tuse, symmetrical base, shortly narrowed or almost rounded and abruptly acuminate at apex, entire or upwards sinuate, 12-20 cm. long and 4-9 cm. broad, coriaceous, moderately rigid, the acumen 6-15 mm. long; upper surface brownish-green, gla-brous, the main nerves thinly impressed, the others almost inconspicuous; lower surface ochraceous-cinereous, tomentose with dense, intricate, minute, whitish, stellate hairs and thicker, ferruginous, stellate hairs especially on the nerves, the costa very prominent, the 7-8 secondary nerves on each side prominent, ascending. Inflorescences axillary, very small, reduced to 1-3 flowers, the axes and branchlets very short; peduncles slender, up to 12 mm. long, ferruginous-tomentose, 3-bracteo-late at apex; bracteoles narrowly linear, subacute, 3-6 mm. long and 1-2 mm. broad, tomentose; pedicels 5-6 mm. long, tomentose. Flowers with ovate-oblong sepals, these united about 2 mm. from the base, acute and spreading or reflexed at apex, 8-9 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad, thick, ochraceous-tomentose outside, orange and glabrous except for the minutely tomentose margin and for a ring of glandulous hairs at base inside; petal-hoods obovate, rounded-cucullate at apex, 3 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, orange, 7-nerved, glabrous and rugose outside, minutely hispidu-lous inside; petal-laminae stipitate, the stipe 2.5 mm. long and sparsely puberulous, rhomboid-obovate, 4-5 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, thick, brownish-red, sparsely covered with minute hairs, the margin with larger, flexuose hairs; staminodes peta-loid, oblong-obovate, rounded and retuse at apex, 5-5.5 mm. long and 2.2 mm. broad, rather thick, brownish-red, minutely pilose; filaments 1 mm. long, 3-antheriferous; ovary densely tomentose; styles coherent, 1 mm. long, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, rounded at both ends, about 7 x 4 cm., smooth, greenish-brown. densely appressed-tomentose, the epicarp wvoody-coriaceous, about 1 mm. thick when dry.
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