Large shrub or small tree, up to 10 m high; vegetative parts soon glabrescent; branches light grey, usually rather rough and the younger ones marked in stretches with the scars of fallen leaves; ultimate twigs usually less than 10 cm long. Leaves oblanceolate-cuneate, or oblanceolate-obovate to obovate-oblong, drying green or yellowish-green above, paler and duller beneath, 2-7 cm long and 0-75-2-5 cm wide; petiole 3-8 mm long; blade with a very slightly reflexed margin, obtuse, subacute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, but not usually rounded at the top, gradually narrowing into the acute or acuminate-decurrent base. Flowers few to many (over 20) on one twig; bracts minute; pedicels rather slender, 1-16 mm long, buffy-brown tomentose. Calyx biseriate; outer sepals ovate-triangular, acute or subacute, buffy-green tomentose outside, with a whitish margin, greyish-tomentose inside near the tip, 5-6 mm long and about 3 mm wide; inner ones about as long and as wide as the outer ones, thinner in texture, ovate-oblong, more obtuse, greyish-pubescent outside with a slightly darker longitudinal streak in the middle, and inside at least in upper half. Corolla yellowish, glabrous; tube about 0-5 mm long; lob
