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Small tree to 6 m. Leaves oblong or slightly oblanceolate-oblong, 30-37 by 11-12 cm, slightly cordate at base, rounded and abruptly shortly caudate at apex (cauda 1.2-1.8 cm by 2-4 mm), chartaceo-coriaceous, glabrous, pale ochraceous-brownish (greenish tinged above) when dry; midrib moderately robust, very prominent and subcylindric beneath, flat or scarcely prominulous above; nerves very slender, c. 35 pairs, distinctly prominulous on both surfaces; petiole 1-1.5 by 4 mm, very rugose. Inflorescence very abbreviated, 2.5 cm, few-flowered, sericeous. Pedicels 1.2-2.5 cm, densely ochraceous-sericeous. Calyx broadly ovoid, truncate at base, 7-8 cm ø; sepals broadly deltoid, 7-8 by 4-6 mm, slightly recurved and sometimes with a slight thickening at the apex, dorsally ochraceous-sericeous. Disk-lobes c. 50, robust, laterally flattened, 6 mm long, glabrous, epustulate. Style elongate, long-hairy, surrounded at the base by 4-5 small obtuse 'parastyles'. Fruit subglobose, 372 cm ø, apparently 5-valved, rugulose. obscurely puberulous, subtended by the 10 mm long sepals and borne on a striate pedicel 2.5 cm by 3-4 mm. Seed apparently solitary, large.
