Tree up to 30 m high and 85 cm ø, occasionally with steep plank buttresses up to 3 m high. Bark brown, green-or orange-brown, rugose or shallowly dippled. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, (6-) 10-26 by (l¾-)3½-9 cm, glabrous; base cuneate or attenuate; apex acuminate; nerves 9-14 pairs, slightly elevated beneath, faint above; veins often distinct on both surfaces; petiole ⅔-4½ cm. Panicles up to 8 cm long, puberulous; pedicels 2-6 mm, not articulated. Flower-buds ellipsoid, 8-9 by 2-3 mm, acuminate. Calyx 8-9 mm long, bursting irregularly, puberulous outside. Petals white, 5 (or 6), imbricate, narrowly oblanceolate, 10-13 by 2½ mm, puberulous outside, papillose on the inside; the basal 1-3 mm longitudimilly adnate to the torus. Stamens 5 (or 6), 7 mm; filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, 1¼ mm long. Torus cylindric, 1½-4 mm long. Ovary broadly obovoid, 2 mm long, densely puberulous; stipe obscure; style lateral, 6 mm. Drupe on an obscure, centric stalk, ellipsoid, 6½-7 by 3-4½ cm (10-12½ by 7½ cm, cf. BURKILL Gard. Bull. S. S. 5 1931 227 ), light brown or brown; scurfy; without enlarged petals; embryo ellipsoid, 3-4½ by 1¾-3 cm; cotyledons incompletely fused, free on one side, free part ½-¾ cm deep.
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