Small tree to 1 0 m. tall, the younger parts of the stem, petioles, and veins of the lower leaf-surface thinly but distinctly stellate-tomentulose; petioles slender, 2-4 cm. long; leaf-blades thin, up to 15 cm. long, about a third as wide, acuminate, entire, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, 5-pli-nerved; panicle 10-15 cm. long, widely branched, many-flowered; buds pyriform, 7-8 mm. long, acute or short-apiculate, glabrous; hypanthium at anthesis 2.5-3 mm. long; petals white, 4-6 mm. long; style 4-5 mm. long; stigma capitate, 1-1.3 mm. in diameter.
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