Medium size or large tree; trunk straight, the branches drooping, angular; sap yellow. Leaves oblong, to narrowly obovate, apically acute or short acuminate, basally rounded, sometimes somewhat dimidiate, the costa broad, plane or im-pressed above, elevated beneath, coriaceous, shiny, often drying yellowish; pet-iole sharply angled with a basal enclosed pit, often drying yellow, the lateral veins arcuate, loop connected to form a submarginal vein 2-3 mm from the margin. Inflorescences several-flowered axillary fascicles; pedicels ca. 2.5 cm long. Flow-ers (from Maheshwari) white, ca. 1.5 cm across; sepals (4-)5, orbicular, concave, fleshy, unequal, apically ciliate; petals 5, ca. 8 mm long, orbicular, spreading, incurved, greenish; stamens in 5 broad bundles of 3-5 each, antipetalous, alter-nating with 5 fleshy glands, the anthers bilocular, pistillate flowers with stami-nodes few, complanate; ovary ovoid, acuminate, 5 locular, stigmas 5. Fruit bac-cate, ca. 6.5 cm across, subglobose, pointed, dark yellow with copious yellow gum when cut; seeds 1-4, imbedded in a yellow, aril like pulp.
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