Tree to 20 m. high; branchlets thick, subterete, minutely yellowish-appressed-tomentellous. Leaves alternate, early silvery-sericeous; petioles stout, obscurely canaliculate, sulcate, densely sericeous-tomentellous, 1-2 cm. long; blades glabrous and shining above, beneath slightly sericeous, coriaceous, in the dried state green, broadly elliptic, 22-40 cm. long and 10-15 cm. broad, the apex somewhat obtuse or shortly acuminate, base acutish or somewhat obtuse, the costa very prominent, the lateral nerves 8 or 9 pairs, prominent, slightly arcuate, the reticulation coarsely prominent. Inflorescence axillary, few-flowered, sericeous-tomentellous, paniculate, up to 15 cm. long, the peduncles short, thick. Pistillate flowers 2.5-3 mm. long, the pedicels to 2 mm. long; perianth pink, pilose, the tube urceolate, 1.5 mm. long, slightly constricted at the apex, the inner surface sericeous-tomentellous; the lobes equal, erect-spreading, fleshy, somewhat flat, narrowly ovate, acutish, 1.5 mm. long, the inner surface tomentellous; stamens minute, 0.8 mm. long, well developed, substerile, the anthers ovate, acutish or truncate, the connective dis-tinctly protruding beyond the small cells, the filaments very short, broad, densely pilose, those of ser. III biglandular; gynaecium pubescent, the ovary large, im-mersed in the perianth-tube, densely verruculose (sericeous-tomentellous), thickly ovoid, attenuate into a short style, the stigma distinct, discoid, subtriangular. Fruit unknown, the subtending cupule subhemispherical, rather smooth, to 11 mm. in diameter and 8 mm. high, merging into the obconical pedicel enlarged to 1 cm. in length.
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