Tree; trunk 15-20 cm diam.; branchlets stout, subterete, rufous-tomentose at the tips, glabrescent elsewhere. Leaves broadly oblong to elliptic, gradually broadly acuminate and ± obtuse at the apex, very broadly attenuate or ± rounded at the base, stiffly chartaceous, initially laxly covered with ferrugineous hairs specially on the midrib, but soon glabrescent and of a dark brownish-olivaceous colour above, ± dark rufous-velutinous or rufous-pilose underneath, entire, (20-)23-40 by (10-)14-19 cm; midrib somewhat prominent above, strongly so beneath, nerves 14-15 pairs, curved upwards and ending very near to the margin, markedly prominent beneath only, reticulations lax, slightly raised beneath only; petiole rufous-tomentose, 7-9 by 3-4 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, dense-flowered, rufous-tomentose all over, 7-8 cm; rhachis nearly villous, c. 2 mm across. Bracts subulate, 1 mm. Pedicels free, c. 1 mm. Perianth pale yellow, 9 mm, limb 1.5 mm diam. Anthers c. 2 mm. Disk glands free, broadly oblong. Ovary rufous-hirsute; style filiform, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, 4.5 by c. 3 cm, pericarp crustaceous 4 mm.
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