Tree up to 30 m high. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, spathulate, or elliptic-lanceolate, 17-40 by 5-12 cm; base attenuate; apex acute or obtuse; nerves 18-35 pairs, prominent beneath, slightly elevated above; veins obscure or invisible on both surfaces; petiole 2-4½ cm, fattened. Panicles terminal, pyramidal, up to 40(-60) cm long, pubescent; lateral branches up to 15 cm long, densely flowered; floral bracts ovate or ovate-oblong, 10-15 mm long; pedicels 0. Flowers lilac. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 11-12 mm long, puberulous outside. Petals spathulate or narrowly elliptic, 20-25 by 5 mm, (the central part of the lower 7-8 mm adnate to the disk); ridge only 1, c. 17 mm long. Disk cylindric, torus-like, 7-8 mm long, not lobed, not papillose. Stamens 5, all fertile, 8-12 mm; filaments free; anthers ovoid-oblong, ½-12356 mm long. Ovary slightly obovoid, l½ mm ø; style excentric, 8-15 mm. Drupe (dried, one coll.) ellipsoid or sub-obovoid-oblong, 10-15 by 7½-8¾ cm, round in CS; flesh (when fresh) greyish white or pinkish with unpleasant rotten smell. Seed not labyrinthine.
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