Shrub or tree 2-7.5 meters high, the branchlets slender, terete, when young densely strigillose; stipules lance-triangular, 1.5-2 mm. long; petioles slender, 3-8 mm. long, strigillose; Leaf blades elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, 8-11.5 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, cuspidate-acuminate, with acute or obtuse tip, cuneate to obtuse at base, membranaceous, remotely and obscurely serrulate, green and glabrous above, paler beneath, sparsely and minutely strigillose, densely pilose along the costa and in the axils of the lateral nerves; Racemes solitary in the leaf axils, 3.5-6.5 cm. long, slender, laxly flowered, the rachis densely sordid-hispidulous, the bracts puberulous, much shorter than the pedicels, the pedicels 1-2 mm. long, glabrous; Sepals 3 or 4, broadly rounded, glabrous; disk large, 4-lobate; Stamen glabrous, the cells divergent; Ovary very sparsely setose, the style short, the stigmas 3, longer than the stamen; Fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, sparsely puberulent; Seeds 3
