Faurea delevoyi De Wild.

Medium to large tree, up to 30 m. in height.. Branchlets green and glabrous, older branches dark brown.. Leaves glossy green above, paler green beneath, not glaucous, elliptic-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, up to 19 cm. long and 5 cm. broad, but more usually in the region of 13 × 3-4 cm., apex acute and mucronate, decurrent at base or sometimes with a very short petiole; midrib prominent beneath, ± flat with lamina above, base of midrib may be reddish, otherwise yellowish along its length; leaves almost glabrous on both surfaces, nearly always a few long weak hairs present towards base on the lower surface on the midrib and sometimes near the base of the margin.. Spikes dense, up to 12 cm. long, terminal; peduncle puberulous to pubescent with whitish appressed hairs; bracts deltoid and cupuliform.. Perianth pale yellow-green, 1 cm. long, conspicuously upwardly curved, becoming rather bulbous towards the apex, puberulous to pubescent outside with whitish appressed hairs.. Anthers 2.5 mm. long.. Hypogynous scales triangular, ± 1 mm. long.