branchlets slender, grooved or angular, pubescent, at length becoming nearly glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, long and acutely more or less gradually acuminate, rounded, subcordate and slightly unequal-sided at the base, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, sharply dentate, chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, slightly shining; lateral nerves 7–11 on each side, looped and much branched some distance from the margin, like the tertiary nerves prominent on both surfaces; petiole 1–1 1/2 lin. long, shortly pubescent; stipules lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, about 1/4 in. long, scarious, slightly ciliate, otherwise glabrous; flowers axillary on the young shoots, solitary or the males sometimes in pairs; male flowers: pedicel 1/3– 3/4 in. long, shortly pubescent; sepals 5, broadly ovate, obtuse, up to 1 3/4 lin. long and broad, unequal, coriaceous, puberulous on both surfaces, shortly and rather densely ciliate; stamens 15, inserted around the disc; filaments 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; anthers 2/3 lin. long; disc undulately lobed, rather thin, lobes projecting between the filaments, pubescent; female flowers: pedicel about 1/2 in. long, shortly pubescent; sepals similar to those of the male but larger; disc fleshy, densely rusty-tomentose; ovary 2-celled, densely rusty-hirsute; styles 2, spreading, puberulous, split down the inner face and with two broad spreading fleshy lobes; fruits 2-celled, ellipsoid, about 3/4 in. long, brown, tomentulose; seeds 6 lin. long, longitudinally striate. null
