Tree 5-8 m; branchlets rufous-tomentose at the tips, glabrous elsewhere, older parts thick with greyish bark. Leaves narrow-oblong to lanceolate, gradually acuminate and subacute at the apex, long-cuneate at the base and somewhat decurrent, subsessile, rigidly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, entire, dark glaucous-greenish or brownish and a little shining above when dry, dilutely brownish and dull beneath, glabrous above except midrib and nerves, laxly ferrugineous-pilose beneath, more densely so on midrib and nerves, (13-) 16-24 by (4-)5-7 cm; midrib slightly elevated above, markedly so beneath, nerves 10(-12) pairs, arcuate, distinctly raised beneath only, reticulations lax, slightly prominent beneath; petiole tomentose, 3-6 by 2-3 mm. Racemes ramiflorous, dense-flowered nearly to their base, slender, 11-14 cm, densely ferrugineous-tomentose on the rhachis and pedicels, less so on the perianth; rhachis 1-1.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 mm. Pedicels stoutish, mostly in twos and connate up to their middle, 1-1.5 mm. Perianth yellowish-brown, c. 1 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb 1 mm diam. Anthers 1 mm. Disk glands broadly oblong, free. Ovary rufous-villous; style slender, filiform. Fruit drupaceous, ellipsoid, 5-7 by 3.5 cm, blackish when ripe; pericarp 4-5 mm, outer layer first succulent, subsequently spongious-corky, soon ± dissolute and showing a rather dense net of thicker and thinner anastomosing fibres, inner layer rather hard, lignescent, 1-1.5 mm. Seed 1, rugulose in the upper half.
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