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Information Large shrub or small evergreen tree, up to 7 m. tall. Young branches coarsely and densely hairy. Leaves petiolate, simple; blade oblong-obovate to oblanceolate, 4.5–17.5 cm. long, 2–3.7 cm. wide, apically obtuse to acute or shortly acuminate, sometimes rounded and emarginate, leathery, rough and shiny on the upper surface, glabrous or puberulous above when young, hairy beneath, with the nervation reticulately prominent beneath; petiole 3–5 mm. long. Inflorescence an elegant dense corymbose terminal raceme; pedicels up to 2.5 cm. long, rough. Sepals 7–8 mm. long, pubescent outside; receptacle ±1.5 mm. long. Petals 5–6 mm. long, yellow with purple centres. Stamens 50–60; filaments ± 3 cm. long, white. Ovary obovoid or ellipsoid-spheroid, rather abruptly narrowed to the stigma, glabrous. Fruits ellipsoid-spheroid, up to 3 cm. long, 2.5 cm. across, roughly verrucose, glabrous. Fig. 6.

Information Evergreen bush or small tree up to 5 m. tall; young branches scabrous-puberulous, sulcate. Leaves simple; lamina 4–12 x 2–5 cm., coriaceous, oblong-obovate, narrowly obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, apex rounded, obtuse or acute, mucronate, narrowed to an obtuse or subcordate base, scabrous-pubescent on both sides, rather shining above, dull below and with the nerves strongly raised, venation strongly reticulate, on puberulous petioles up to 5 mm. long. Flowers numerous in terminal, dense, corymbose racemes; rhachis c. 1 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels up to 3 cm. long, pubescent; bracts 1–2.5 mm. long, subulate, trifid, pilose, persistent. Receptacle 2.0 mm. long, 2.25 mm. wide at the mouth, funnel-shaped, pubescent outside, with a disk at the mouth inside which is rather thick, undulately lobed and 2 mm. long; sepals c. 9 x 5 mm., oblong, concave, rounded at the apex, pubescent on both sides. Petals whitish, c. 0.6 x 3.5 mm., obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, rounded at the base. Androgynophore exserted from the receptacle, 2.5–3 mm. long. Stamens c. 60 on filaments up to 3 cm. long; anthers 1.3 x 1 mm., broadly oblong. Ovary on a gynophore up to 2.5 cm. long, ovoid; ovules c. 4 on 2 placentas; stigma subsessile, capitate. Fruit up to 1.7 cm. in diam., globose, bluntly apiculate, shining, minutely and smoothly verrucose. Seeds 2–4 c. 1 x 0.5 cm., dark brown, oblong, ellipsoid; testa smooth.