Tree, its young branchlets very shortly and densely tomentellous. Leaves rigid, on petioles 2-3 mm. long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute at the base, long acuminate at the apex, glabrous above, thinly provided beneath with short appressed hairs, 8-11 cm. long, and 2.3-3.5 cm. broad. Flowers solitary; pedicels sericeous, often recurved, 5-6 mm. long; flower buds ovoid, about 1 cm. long. Sepals connate up to the middle. Petals flat; the outer ovate, sericeous outside, about 12 mm. long and 6 mm. broad; the inner rhombic-lanceolate, 11 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad. Stamens 3 mm. long, connective appendage ellipsoid. Carpels about 8. Monocarps 1-4 (or more), obovoid to clavate, ca. 2 cm. long. Seeds 2, black.
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