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Tree up to 10 m. high; branchlets sparsely pilose when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina up to 10 x 3·8 cm., papyraceous with ± translucent dots, elliptic, glabrous except for a few reddish hairs on the midrib beneath, apex blunt and slightly acuminate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 nerves usually with 2 conspicuous subcircular glands (? extra-floral nectaries) with a central pit situated on or near the 4th or 5th pair of nerves (from the base) c. halfway between the midrib and the margin; petiole 5–7 mm. long, slender. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary subcapitate racemes 2–4 cm. long; rhachis pilose and sericeous-pubescent. Flowers white, hermaphrodite and male in the same inflorescence, pedicellate, sericeous-pubescent. hermaphrodite flowers: lower receptacle c. 3–5 mm. long, sericeous-pubescent; upper receptacle 1·5 x 3 mm., broadly campanulate, sparsely sericeous-pubescent, with a slender stalk-like portion at the base c. 0·5 mm. long; disk pilose; style 3 mm. long. male flowers similar to the hermaphrodite ones but with the ovary not developed and the style vestigial. Fruit (2)3-winged, 1–1·5 x 0·8–1·2 cm., obovate-elliptic in outline, appressed-pubescent, stipe up to 1·2 cm. long, slender, densely appressed-pubescent.

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Tree up to 10 m. high; branchlets sparsely pilose when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina up to 10 x 3·8 cm., papyraceous with ± translucent dots, elliptic, glabrous except for a few reddish hairs on the midrib beneath, apex blunt and slightly acuminate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 nerves usually with 2 conspicuous subcircular glands (? extra-floral nectaries) with a central pit situated on or near the 4th or 5th pair of nerves (from the base) c. halfway between the midrib and the margin; petiole 5–7 mm. long, slender. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary subcapitate racemes 2–4 cm. long; rhachis pilose and sericeous-pubescent. Flowers white, hermaphrodite and male in the same inflorescence, pedicellate, sericeous-pubescent. hermaphrodite flowers: lower receptacle c. 3–5 mm. long, sericeous-pubescent; upper receptacle 1·5 x 3 mm., broadly campanulate, sparsely sericeous-pubescent, with a slender stalk-like portion at the base c. 0·5 mm. long; disk pilose; style 3 mm. long. male flowers similar to the hermaphrodite ones but with the ovary not developed and the style vestigial. Fruit (2)3-winged, 1–1·5 x 0·8–1·2 cm., obovate-elliptic in outline, appressed-pubescent, stipe up to 1·2 cm. long, slender, densely appressed-pubescent.

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Tree up to 10 m. high; branchlets sparsely pilose when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite; lamina up to 10 x 3·8 cm., papyraceous with ± translucent dots, elliptic, glabrous except for a few reddish hairs on the midrib beneath, apex blunt and slightly acuminate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 nerves usually with 2 conspicuous subcircular glands (? extra-floral nectaries) with a central pit situated on or near the 4th or 5th pair of nerves (from the base) c. halfway between the midrib and the margin; petiole 5–7 mm. long, slender. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary subcapitate racemes 2–4 cm. long; rhachis pilose and sericeous-pubescent. Flowers white, hermaphrodite and male in the same inflorescence, pedicellate, sericeous-pubescent. hermaphrodite flowers: lower receptacle c. 3–5 mm. long, sericeous-pubescent; upper receptacle 1·5 x 3 mm., broadly campanulate, sparsely sericeous-pubescent, with a slender stalk-like portion at the base c. 0·5 mm. long; disk pilose; style 3 mm. long. male flowers similar to the hermaphrodite ones but with the ovary not developed and the style vestigial. Fruit (2)3-winged, 1–1·5 x 0·8–1·2 cm., obovate-elliptic in outline, appressed-pubescent, stipe up to 1·2 cm. long, slender, densely appressed-pubescent.