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Tree, 12 by 1.2 m. Leaves broadly elliptic, 10-17 by 4½-9 cm, rounded at base and apex, or apex sometimes very shortly subapiculate, margin re-flexed, rigidly coriaceous, brownish when dry, somewhat shining above, glabrous except for the midrib sparsely puberulous below; midrib narrowly incised above, robust below; nerves rather closely reticulate above, laxer below, anastomosing into a distinct intra-marginal nerve. Inflorescence robust, up to 18 cm long; rhachis somewhat flattened, 3-4 mm thick; branches thick, very short, up to 8 mm long, apparently many-flowered at the apex, very minutely ferrugineo-puberulous. Pedicels up to 1.8 cm, grey-sericeous. Calyx 1 mm long, 7-8 mm ø, thickened and truncate at the base, very shortly adpressed-sericeous; segments +-deltoid, somewhat obtuse and very shortly recurved at the apex. Disk-lobes 35-40, narrowly subulate, 3-4 mm long, glabrous, epustulate. Style pilose below; parastyles 2-3, flattened-clavate, 1½ mm. Fruit globose, indehiscent (?), up to 7½ cm diam., pericarp 1½-2 cm thick, very woody or almost stony, externally verruculose, dehiscing by 4 valves. Pedicel 20 by 7 mm. Seeds complanate-ovoid, up to 1½ by 2 cm; testa smooth, somewhat shining, deep brown, scarcely 1 mm thick.
