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Male flowers: stamens 8, inserted at the base of a narrow disk; filaments subulate, flattened at the base, those opposite the petals shorter and all shorter than the petals; anthers 0–6 mm. long, basifixed, ovate, 2-lobed at the base.
Inflorescence of small axillary racemes or panicles, shorter than the petiole of the subtending leaf; bracteoles very small, caducous; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long.
Evergreen shrub or small tree 3 m. tall; young branches, petioles and inflorescences minutely puberulous, older branches glabrous, lenticellate.
Sepals 4, united into a shallowly lobed cupuliform calyx 0·8–1·2 mm. long.
Fruit (immature) glabrous, 2-locular with only 1 loculus fertile.
Petals 4, 3·5 × 1·3 mm., imbricate in bud, elliptic.
Flowers 4-merous, unisexual by abortion.
Female flowers not seen.
