A shrub; old branches with a rough greyish bark, young ones smooth, drying blackish; leaf-buds fulvous, silky-velvety. Leaves elliptic, obtuse to obscurely acuminate, obtuse to rounded at the base, 4–6 in. long, 2 to over 3 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown, very dark above; midrib flat above, rounded and moderately prominent below; lateral nerves 9–11 on each side, rather spreadingly oblique, indistinctly looping, like the reticulation faintly raised above, more so below; petiole 3–4 in. long, stout, shallowly channelled above. Panicles axillary, 1–3 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide, finely rufo-puberulous all over; peduncle 1/2–1 in. long; lowest branches more or less spreading, undivided to 1/3 or 1/2 way up, then copiously branched, many-flowered; ultimate branchlets and pedicels subfiliform, the latter up to over 2 lin. long. Perianth greenish, very shallowly turbinate, 3- or 4-merous, very minutely fulvo- or rufo-puberulous, 1 1/2 to over 2 lin. in diam.; receptacle about 2/3 the length of the perianth, rather fleshy from the large adnate staminal glands, which dry a deep black, hairy at the base within; segments rotundate-ovate, minutely hairy inside. Introrse stamens subsessile, hairy on both sides; extrorse stamens with a villous filament about as long as the anther and a large gland on each side; staminodes very small, ovate, villous on the outer side. Ovary glabrous, as long as the style.
