Compilation
Neoboutonia velutina

Tree, 50–80 ft. high; twigs sparingly stellate-scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute, entire, 4–8 in. long, as much across, green, above softly hirsute on the nerves with rather long white hairs simple from a bulbous base or springing from the centre of a stellate tuft, beneath uniformly continuously velvety with a loose soft stellate tomentum; petiole finely scurfy; stipules linear, rather rigid. Male flowers pedicelled, copiously panicled, in bud globose, 1 1/2 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle-branches closely scurfy. Calyx finely pubescent at the apex. Stamens 20–25; filaments as long as the anthers; connective usually with 3 (sometimes with a single) apical glands; extrastaminal scales oblong, truncate or emarginate. Female flowers in copiously branched racemes, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a very short tube. Ovary densely velvety with stellate hairs; styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, densely velvety, 3 lin. long, as much across. Seeds not seen ripe.