Tree up to 20 m high and 65 cm ø. Buttresses 2 m high, 1ll wide, 6 cm thick. Bark greyish red-brown, rough. Leaves coriaceous obovate-oblong, oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 71l2-16 by 2½-6½ cm, glabrous; base attenuate; apex obtuse, rounded, or emarginate; nerves 9-14 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, flat and distinct above; veins reticulate, usually distinct on both surfaces, sometimes obscure above; petiole ½-1¾ cm. Panicles 9½-13½ cm long, puberulous; pedicels 10-27½ mm, not articulated. Flower-buds lanceolate, 12-15 by 3½-4½ mm, rostrate. Calyx 12-15 mm long, circumscissile, puberulous outside. Petals imbricate, elliptic-oblong, sometimes lanceolate, 7-12 by 2½-4 mm, densely hairy outside, sparsely hairy and papillose at the base inside. Stamens 00 (more than 100); filaments 2¾-7 mm, sparsely hairy; anthers oblong, c. ⅔ mm long. Torus sub-globose, c. l½ mm ø. Ovary subglobose, ½-¾ mm ø, glabrous; stipe l-2½ nim; style 2½-3½ mm, terminal. Drupe sessile, globose, 3-4 cm ø, brown, densely lenticellate; embryo depressed-globose, 1¾-2¾ cm ø; cotyledons free.
Lowland forest and marshy places, from sea-level to 60 m. Fl. May, June; fr. May-June, Sept.-Oct.
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