petiolate, elliptic to oblong, abruptly to long acuminate 
at apex, the acumen often subfalcate, obtuse at base, 
18-28 cm. long, 9-11 cm. wide, glabrous, firmly charta- 
ceous, dull, dark green above, pale green beneath, mid- 
rib prominent beneath, light brown, lateral nerves 6-7, 
spreading, arcuately anastomosing 1 cm. within margin, 
veinlets finely reticulate; petiole stout, subterete, cana- 
liculate above, 10-15 mm. long, brown. Inflorescence 
terminal, one-flowered, or, on previous branches, axillary 
with 1-3 flowers. Flowers fragrant, white. Peduncle very 
short, subbracteate. Bracts ovate- to ovate-lanceolate, 
concave, ciliolate at margin, 2-4 mm. long, caducous. 
Pedicel erect, slender, terete, 5-6 mm. long, glabrous. 
Calyx tubular-campanulate, globose in bud, 8-12 mm. 
long, 3-6 mm. in diameter, glabrous throughout, firmly 
chartaceous, veinlets prominulous, reticulate, teeth erect, 
ovate, blunt to acute, glandular-ciliolate, 2-4 mm. long, 
persistent; calyx in fruit to 13 mm. long, dotted with 
lenticels. Corolla tube cylindric, twice as long as calyx, 
22-27 mmm. long, 2—2.5 mm. in diameter, gradually di- 
lated toward apex, glabrous; limb 22-25 mm. in diame- 
ter, spreading from rounded mouth, 5 mm. in diameter, 
the lobes subequal, conduplicate in bud, rounded at apex, 
rarely emarginate, slightly overlapping at margin above 
base, narrowed at base, 8-10 mm. long. Stamens in- 
serted in upper third of tube; filaments subligulate, 5 
mm. long, 1 mm. wide, lower pair curved at apex, upper 
pair suberect, glabrous; anthers reniform-hippocrepi- 
form, 2 mm. long, light brown. Ovary ovoid, gibbous 
at base, 2.5 mm. long, glabrous; style slender, curved 
at apex, 19-20 mm. long; stigma bifid, gaping as a for- 
ceps, lobes oblong, 1.5 mm. long. Capsule globose to 
ovoid, 2-8 cm. long, 2-8 em. in diameter, smooth, yellow 
when ripe, indehiscent, mesocarp fleshy, to 1.5 mm. 
thick, endocarp thin, cartilaginous, enclosing 2-5 seeds. 
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