Abstract
Small tree with hard wood, white bark. Stems glabrous, without spines, with persistent leaf bases at the nodes. Leaves alternate, glabrous; petioles to 6 mm long, rugulose, drying darker than the blade; blade ovate-lanceolate, entire, subcoriaceous, shiny, 9-13 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, the base cuneate, the apex acuminate, the margin slightly revolute when dry, the midvein impressed above, prominent below, the secondary veins prominent on both surfaces, irregularly reticulate. Inflorescences axillary, racemose; axis 5 mm long; bracts glabrous, rigid, 1 mm long, subtended by a few stiff bristles. Flowers unknown. Calyx deciduous. Capsule green, glabrous, loculicidal, 2-loculate, 1.5 cm long, 2.2 cm wide, conspicuously 2-lobed, the lobes ovoid, not winged; locules 1-seeded; seed smooth, glabrous, globose, pendulous, with an umbraculiform aril.
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