Straggling small tree or shrub; young branchlets dark at first, pubescent with brown hairs, later somewhat scabrid with short blackish hairs or glabrescent.. Leaf-blades elliptic, 1.5–9.5 cm. long, 1–5.7 cm. wide, obtuse to shortly mucronulate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, rather thick, green and often minutely black-speckled above, dull and whitish beneath due to clusters of white deposits within the epidermal cells, glabrous above, adpressed pubescent beneath when young, becoming sparsely so with age; venation very closely reticulate and raised on upper surface; petiole 1 .5–3 mm. long.. Flowers rather small, so far known only from almost mature buds, in 1–3-flowered leaf-opposed fascicles; peduncles obsolete or scarcely 0.5 mm. long; pedicels 0.7–1.2 cm. long, ferruginous pubescent; bracts and bracteoles elliptic, 3–4.5 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, ferruginous pubescent.. Sepals raised at edge so that buds are conspicuously 3-ribbed, broadly lanceolate, 1.1 cm. long, 5–5.5 mm. wide, ferruginous pubescent outside.. Petals in 2 rows of 3, the aestivation open at extreme base, oblong-elliptic, 8–9 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, tomentellous outside, glabrous inside.. Androgynophore 3.5 mm. high; anthers 0.7 mm. long, very numerous.. Carpels ± 16; ovary linear-oblong or subcylindrical, ± 2 mm. long, ± 11-ovulate, densely hairy; stigma well developed, lobulate.. Very immature monocarps ellipsoid, ferruginous pubescent.. Fig. 1, p. 9.
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