Tree 10-25 m; young branchlets laxly appressed-rusty-pilose, older ones glabrous, angular. Leaves oblong, shortly acuminate at the apex, very inequilateral at base (cuneate at the narrower side, ro unded at the wider one), coriaceous or nearly so, glabrous and shining above, opaque and glaucescent beneath, ± distinctly serrate, 12-25 by (5-) 6-8 cm, lateral nerves nearly plane above, little but visibly raised beneath, veins transverse, numerous, slightly reticulate; petiole ± laxly covered With appressed hairs, 1½-2 cm long. Stipules not seen, probably very early deciduous. ♂ Cymes 0.6-1 cm peduncled, very shortly branched, 6-8-flowered, rather densely covered with appressed, nearly strigose ferrugineous hairs; pedicels 2-4 mm. Sepals ovate-rotundate, obtuse, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, green. Petals elliptic, minutely erose and ciliate at the apex, elsewhere laxly pubescent, 2.5 mm across; scales ovate, thick, densely rufous-pilose on both sides, specially inside, 2 mm, slightly divided at the apex. Anthers reniform, 1¼ mm wide; filaments subulate, very thickened at the base, glabrous, 1 mm. ♀ Flowers not yet known. Fruit subglobose-ovoid, markedly contracted at the apex, c. 1.5 cm, 'umbonate' with 5 vertical grooves, c. 1 by 5 cm, dark-brown-or rusty-velvety with many light dots; peduncle woody, 0.8-1.5 by 0.9 cm.
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