An arborescent shrub, 15–25 ft. high, with slender densely leafy branchlets, drying brown; leaf-buds adpressedly fulvous-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, rarely subobtuse, subacute at the base, up to 4 in. long and 1 1/4 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, more or less shining above; midrib very slender and rather flat above, somewhat raised below; lateral nerves 8–10 on each side, looping some distance from the margin, like the loose reticulation faintly raised, particularly below; petiole finely channelled above, 3–4 lin. long. Panicles axillary, numerous, 1–1 3/4 in. long (including the short peduncle), up to over 1 in. broad, finely and densely rufo-pubescent all over; branches ascending, 4–5 lin. long; branchlets and pedicels very short, the latter not quite 1/2 lin. long. Perianth broad-turbinate, 3/4 lin. high, up to 1 1/4 lin. in diam., finely pubescent without; receptacle 1/2 the length of the perianth, glabrous within; segments rotundate, ciliolate. Introrse stamens with more or less hairy filaments, about as long as the very short anthers, but narrower; extrorse anthers with linear loosely hairy filaments and a large roundish gland on each side of the base; staminodes subhastate, acute, glabrous within. Ovary glabrous, suddenly contracted into a slender, slightly longer style.