Trees, small, deciduous. Branchlets reddish brown, glabrous. Petiole 1--3 cm; leaf blade broadly lanceolate, l0--l5 X 5--6 cm, submembranous, both surfaces glabrous or very scattered pubescent, abaxially drying with dark veinlets contrasting with paler background, adaxially brown, both ends acute to obtuse, margin sometimes inconspicuously crenulate, lateral veins 4--6(or 7) per side and prominentmost vein extending to near leaf apex, reticulate veinlets flat and clearly defined. Male flowers in 1--7-flowered cymes; peduncle to 4 mm; pedicel ca. 5 mm, glabrous; calyx less than 1/2 as long as corolla, glabrous; calyx lobes 4, triangular, longer than tube, ca. 1.5 X 1 mm; corolla glabrous, urn-shaped, 8--10 mm, glabrous; corolla lobes 4, 2--3 mm wide, apex rounded. Fruit solitary, sessile. Fruiting calyx nearly square, ca. 1.4 cm in diam., outside sparsely appressed white pubescent, inside densely chestnut brown sericeous, lobes 4. Berries depressed globose to ellipsoid, 2--3.5 X 2--2.8 cm, 8-locular, glabrous, apex cuspidate. Seeds brown, compressed oblong, ca. 1.1 cm. Fr. Oct.
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A small tree. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are papery. They are narrowly oval and 3-8 cm long by 2-3 cm wide. They taper to the tip and are rounded at the base. There are yellow hairs near the vein angles underneath the leaves. The flowers are white. Male and female flowers are on separate trees. Female flowers occur singly and male flowers are in groups of 5-6. The fruit are a flattened round shape. They are 2-4 cm long by 2-3 cm wide.
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