A tree about 10 m. high, the young branchlets densely covered with golden-yellow stellate scales. Leaves on 3-4 mm. long petioles, 12-22 cm. long and 3.5-5.0 cm. broad, chartaceous, glabrous on upper side from the first, densely scaly under-neath when young, finally nearly glabrescent, oblanceolate, cuneate and very acute at the base, contracted at the apex into an obtuse acumen 1.5-3.0 cm. long. In-florescences 1-to 3-flowered, opposite the leaves, shortly pedunculate. Flowers on pedicels 2-4 mm. long, small, fragrant. Sepals about 10 mm. long, ovate, yellow-scaly outside. Petals oblong, obtuse, rather densely silvery-scaly outside, up to 13 mm. long and 5 mm. broad. Stamens 1 mm. long, the connective-disk glabrous. Ovaries glabrous. Fruit spherical, 3.5-4.5 cm. across; monocarps numerous, free, clavate, 16-18 mm. long and 7-8 mm. thick, very rugose above the middle, rotun-date and very shortly apiculate at the apex.
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