Tree to 10 m. tall, the younger parts of the stem, petioles, and panicle loosely stellate-pubescent; petioles 2.5-3.5 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, varying to somewhat ovate or obovate, up to 18 cm. long, about half as wide, abruptly caudate-acuminate, entire or undulate, broadly obtuse at base, barely to distinctly 5-pli-nerved, glabrous above, stellate-pubescent beneath; panicle pyramidal, many-flowered, 3-12 cm. long; buds obovoid, 3.5-4 mm. long, rounded at the summit, truncate or retuse at the base, glabrous or nearly so; hypanthium 2 mm. long at anthesis; petals white, about 4 mm. long; style columnar, 3-4 mm. long; stigma capitate.
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