ovate-oblong
1.Panicles terminal, 6-7 cm long, peduncles c. 3 cm long; sepals 4, yellowish green, ovate-oblong, ca. 2.5 mm long; petals 4, pale yellowish white, obovate, ca. 2 mm long.
2.Thyrses 5-7 cm in diameter, sparsely flowered, with 2-5 white sterile marginal flowers about 2-3 cm in diam.; peduncles 2-4 cm long; fertile flowers yellowish white, corolla c. 3 mm in diam., rotate, lobes ovate, half as long as corolla tubes; stamens nearly as long as corolla, anthers oblong; styles slightly higher than calyx teeth.
3.Leaves leathery, oblong-elliptic, rarely ovate-elliptic, 7-18 cm long and 3.5-8.5 cm wide, apex abruptly short acuminate or short acuminate, base cuneate, broadly cuneate or obtuse, adaxially dark green and glossy; petioles without stipular scars.

