A tree, with young shoots rufous-hispid or afterwards fuscous-hispid; old branches dark, glabrate. Leaves oval-oblong, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, firmly membranous, glabrous and with depressed veins above, beneath paler and with rufous-hispid hairs on the raised midrib and lateral veins, flat, 5–7 1/2 by 1 1/2–2 1/3 in.; petiole fuscous hispid, 1/8– 3/10 in. long. Male flowers several or many together, 3/5 in. long, 5–6-merous, in the axils of present or fallen leaves, forming short dense rufous-pilose-hispid cymes often on the older branches; pedicels short. Calyx ferruginous-hairy on both sides, 3/10– 3/5 in. long, deeply cleft; lobes lanceolate, somewhat spreading. Corolla subrotate in full flower, ovoid-conical in the bud, 1/2 in. long, partite, glabrous except short pale hairs along the back of the lanceolate-oblong spreading obtuse lobes. Stamens 15–17, nearly equal, 1/3 in. long, appearing at the open mouth of the corolla, hispid-pilose with pale ferruginous hairs; filaments short, not in pairs. Ovary represented by a few hispid hairs. Female plant unknown.
