Tree 5-8 m, rarely shrub, branchlets glabrous. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, somewhat inequilateral and ± rounded at the base, rather abruptly acuminate at the apex, subcoriaceous, entire, glabrous, shining on both surfaces, (15-) c. 20(-30) by 5½-7½ cm; midrib prominent specially below, nerves arcuate, sometimes slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulations rather dense and raised on both sides; petiole 5-10 mm. ♂ Flowers in small, few-flowered cymes; peduncle ½-1 cm. Pedicels rusty-puberulous, c. 1.9 cm. Sepals elliptic-ovate, minutely rusty-pubescent outside, 8 by 4 mm. Petals narrow-oblong, nearly glabrous, 1.2 by 0.3-0.4 cm; scales linear, 6 by 1.5 mm, nearly glabrous. Filaments 2.5 mm; anthers 3.5 mm. ♀ Flowers subsolitary. Pedicels 6-15 mm. Sepals and petals slightly larger than in the ♂ flowers. Ovary elongate-ovoid, fulvous-tomentose, obscurely 5-costate near the apex. Fruit subglobose-ovoid, protracted at the apex, slightly 5-sulcate, yellowish-velutinous when dry, 3.7-4 by 2.5 cm. Seeds 5-6, c. 1 cm long.
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