Trees to 16 m. tall, the branchlets stout, terete. Leaves thin-coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, 10-30 cm. long, 4-18 cm. broad, acute to acuminate at the apex, acute to rounded at the base, entire or undulate, the costa prominent, the primary lateral veins 8-10 per side, more or less straight, spreading; petioles 1-12 cm. long. In-florescences of 4-16 umbels racemosely or umbellately arranged, terminal or lateral, the primary peduncle stout, 0.5-2.0 cm. long, the primary rhachis 0.5-3.0 cm. long, the floriferous peduncles 2-8 cm. long, bracteate and articulate in the lower one-third to one-half; pedicels 2-12 mm. long. Flowers 15-50 per umbel, 5-merous; calyx obconic, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. in diameter; petals oblong, 1.5-2.0 mm. long, 1.0-1.5 mm. broad; filaments carnose, 1-2 mm. long, the anthers subglobose-oblong, small; styles connate, forming a short column, free apically. Fruit subglobose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, the styles free and recurved in the distal half; seeds 5.
Home