Shrub or small tree up to about 13 m. tall, glabrous. Leaf-lamina elliptic-oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, cuneate or attenuate at the base, obtuse to rounded at the apex, up to about 17.5 cm. long and 5.5 cm. broad, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, glaucous or pale beneath; petiole up to about 2.5 cm. long. Flowers umbellate or fasciculate or sometimes solitary, hermaphrodite. Calyx 4.5-12 mm. long; petals 8-25, oblong to elliptic-or ovate-oblong, 5-25 mm. long. Stamens about 25-65, in 2-5 series. Carpels 3-24; ovules 7-12.