Tree up to 12 m high. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 11½-26 by 4½-7½ cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex shortly acuminate to acuminate; nerves 18-27 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces; veins reticulate, distinct on both surfaces; petiole l½_4½ cm, convex beneath, flat above. Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the apical leaf-axils, pyramidal, up to 22 cm long, crowded at the apex of twigs, puberulous; lateral branches up to 7 cm long, laxly flowered; floral bracts ovate, 2-2½ mm long; pedicels ½-½4mm. Flowers white. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes ovate or ovate-oblong, 1½-2 mm long, slightly hairy at the apical part outside. Petals 4, lanceolate, 2½-4 by ½4-1½45mm; ridges 3, ⅓-½ the length of the petal, confluent at the lower 1-1½ mm. Disk short-cupular, ⅔-l mm high, 1½ mm wide, 4-lobed, papillose. Stamens 4, 1 fertile, 1½-2 mm; filaments free; anthers ovoid, ½-⅔ mm long; staminodes up to 1 mm. Ovary obliquely subglobose, c. 1 mm ø; style lateral, 2 mm. Sterile pistil in ♂obscure. Drupe (fresh or dried) obliquely subrotund, much compressed, 6½-8 by 6 cm; flesh fibrous. Seed labyrinthine.
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A tree. It grows 12 m tall. The leaves are sword shaped and 11-26 cm long by 4-8 cm wide. The flowers are white. The fruit are roundish but oblique. They are 6-8 cm long by 6 cm wide. The flesh is fibrous.
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