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Tree, 15-30 m by 60 cm, sometimes with pendulous branches, bark of branchlets dark brown. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong or rarely oblong, 9-27 by 3½-9 cm, cuneate to rounded at the base, cuspidate to shortly acuminate at apex, chartaceo-coriaceous, glabrous except for a few adpressed hairs near the midrib below, glossy in the fresh state, drying a dull purplish-brown or leaden colour (the lower side more brownish); venation slender, parallel, prominent; midrib flat or very slightly raised above, not channelled; petiole 8-17 by 1-3 mm, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, occasionally apparently axillary, 6-20 cm long, simple or with up to 4 branches, these up to 13 cm, adpressed-pubescent. Pedicels up to 18 mm, densely fulvo-tomentellous. Buds globose, 5 mm diam. before anthesis. Sepals ovate-deltoid, 6-7 by 2½-3½ mm, ochraceo-tomentellous, subacute to subobtuse. Petals c. 30, subulate-filiform, 3-4 mm, glabrous, epustulate. Ovary c. 3 mm long, with 3 small subglobose pubescent 'parastyles' round the base of the style; style glabrous. Fruit subglobose, 4-10 cm diam.; pericarp 7-8 mm thick. Seeds up to 3ll2 cm diam.
