Tree, 5-10 m. Branchlets practically glabrous. Leaves oblong, apex shortly acuminate, subacute, base ± broadly cuneate, coriaceous, olivaceous-brownish and dull in dry specimens, glabrous except some sparse hairs on midrib and finely tubercled beneath, 10-17(-22) by 4-6(-8) cm, nerves 5-6 curved or more straight pairs, obscurely or not anastomosing, a little raised beneath, generally no reticulation visible, though fully mature leaves show a very fine impressed reticulation above; petiole 0.7-1 cm by 1.5-2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences composed of several few-flowered shortly branched cymes together on a stoutish peduncle, 1.5-2.5 cm long in all, covered with minute rusty hairs. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-denticu-late, 1.5 mm. Petals 5, free only in their upper part at full anthesis, fleshy, very laxly short-hairy to practically glabrous, 4 mm. Stamens 5, a little exserted; filaments hairy ventrally below the anther cells. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences with 3-4 one-flowered branches (c. 5 mm) together on top of stoutish peduncle (1-1.5 cm). Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes 5. Ovary glabrous. Drupe subovoid-ellipsoid in submature state, apex ± abruptly attenuate and a little curved, almost beaked, base attenuate, the endocarp slightly ribbed longitudinally, c. 1.9 by 0.9 cm, probably somewhat longer and more markedly ribbed in fully mature state.
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