Shrub to 7 m. tall, the stems, petioles, lower leaf-surface, panicles, and hypan-thia softly pubescent with stellate hairs on stipes 1-2 mm. long; petioles stout, 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate, oblong-ovate, or oblong-obovate, up to 25 cm. long, half to two thirds as wide, acuminate, usually serrate, obtuse or rounded at base, 5-to 7-pli-nerved, hirsute above with simple bristles; panicle many-flowered, divaricately branched, up to 15 cm. long; buds pyriform, subacute, about 7 mm. long; hypanthium at anthesis 3-4 mm. long; petals pink, 5-7 mm. long; style 3-4 mm. long, abruptly bent near the summit beneath the expanded flat stigma.
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