branches slender, growing tips of branchlets fulvo-pubescent, soon glabrescent; leaves broadly elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, acute at both ends, or tips acutely acuminate, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad, coriaceous, finely pubescent when quite young, at length quite glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on each side, very faint, exceedingly closely and finely reticulate, pallid below; petioles slender, about 1 1/2 lin. long; panicles axillary, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long (including the slender peduncles), the lower often leafy in the upper part, the uppermost much reduced and short, all somewhat dense, minutely fulvo-pubescent; bracts ovate, small, very early deciduous; bracteoles obsolete; pedicels hardly any or up to over 1/2 lin. long; perianth campanulate, over 1 1/2 lin. long, fulvo-pubescent without and excepting the oblong receptacle within; segments subequal, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, almost 1 lin. long; filaments pubescent; anthers ovate, apiculate, 3/8 lin. long, very minutely pubescent on the back along the connective; staminal glands stipitate; staminodes ovate, mucronulate-acute; ovary and style glabrous, the latter 3/4 lin. long; fruit globose, 4 lin. in diam.; receptacle very thin, fleshy; pericarp crustaceous. null