Small tree up to 4 m. high or shrub. Leaves up to 15.5 x 4.5 cm. (including petioles), length-breadth ratio 2.5: 1, chartaceous, at first bright green on both sides, later a little darker above, with weak, persistent, spreading hairs on the petiole, midrib and sometimes also on the margin, broadly obovate-oblanceolate, usually shortly but acutely acuminate and often remarkably apiculate by the prolongation of the midrib; midrib ± flat above, prominent beneath, veins very delicate on both sides, reticulation delicate, dense, ± uniform, pellucid, visible on both surfaces for a long time owing to its colouration. Inflorescences small, few-flowered, terminal and axillary, racemose-paniculate, with persistent, crisped pubescence on branches and pedicels. Sepals free, 2.5 x 1 mm., lanceolate, ciliolate. Petals creamy-yellowish, up to 7 x 1.5 mm., sublinear, ciliolate. Capsule up to 7 x 7 mm., shortly stipitate with valves thickish, convex-gibbous, suborbicular, spreading. Seeds 8, 4 on each placenta.
