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Sepals green, rounded, when dry usually smooth, especially the outer ones, in flower uually appressed to the base of the corolla, in fruit often spreading, the outer ones orbicular or slightly broader than long, 8–13 x 9–13 mm., the inner ones usually slightly larger, becoming retuse by the development of the corolla– Corolla in the mature bud 5·5–7 times as long as the calyx, 55–61 mm. long, tapering at the apex as in the young bud, white or creamy, tube darker than the lobes, often greenish–white; tube about 3–4 times as long as the calyx, about 1–1·5 times as long as the lobes; lobes 10–11, very narrowly elliptic, reflexed.
Leaves usually petiolate but often sessile in young plants or on low–level branches; lamina dark green and usually (?) glossy above, paler beneath, when dry medium to dark brown above, paler beneath, papyraceous to coriaceous, narrowly to very narrowly ovate, in young plants usually narrower, 1·75–3·5 times as long as wide, 7·45 x 3·5–18 cm., in young plants up to 100 x 30 cm. or more (?), cuneate at the base; costa more or less acute beneath; tertiary veins inconspicuous; margin not curved, but often revolute.
Twigs without or occasionally, especially in young plants, with short paired partially united spines, often with small broadly conical cushions.
Berry globose or ellipsoid rounded or apiculate at the apex, never shrivelled when dry; thick–walled.
Tree about 60 ft. high with dense umbrella crown and grey bole
Tree 3–30 (usually 4–10) m. high.
Flowers white or creamy white.
