Strangler trees to about 25 m. tall, the young branches slender, glabrous, devel-oping a thin yellowish periderm. Leaves oblong-elliptic, narrowly subcaudate-acuminate, broadly obtuse at the base, 6-12 cm. long, 2.5-5.0 cm. broad, rather closely pinnate-veined, submembrana-ceous, glabrous, the petiole 1.5-2.0 cm. long, slender; stipules narrowly lanceolate, subcoriaceous, about 1.5 cm. long. Re-ceptacles paired at the nodes, subglobose, about 15 mm. broad, glabrous, the osteole depressed within a conspicuously elevated collar about 5 mm. long; involucral bracts 2, minutely deltoid, scarcely 1 mm. long; peduncle rather slender, about 5 mm. long.
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