Shrub or small tree, rarely to 15 m; young branches becoming glabrous. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to oblong, 15.5-31 by 3.5-9.5 cm, acuminate, base broadly cuneate, truncate or rounded, chartaceous, often somewhat bullate, margin entire or dentate distally, glabrous; lateral veins arched and uniting far from the margins, impressed on upper surface, prominently raised above the lower surface; petiole 2-3 cm, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fascicled. Male rachis 2-3 cm, pubescent, bearing a terminal flower and usually 1-2 pairs of lateral flowers on short branches (which occasion-ally also bear side-branches); receptacle subglobose, c. 3-5 mm ø, slightly strigose; tepals 4, minute; stamens 4, free; filaments broad, short; anthers triangular. Female inflorescences similar, some lateral as well as the terminal flower female and developing fruit, or (more usually) the lateral branches bear male flowers which are soon shed; rachis becoming stout and dilated distally; receptacle turbinate, c. 12 mm ø at anthesis (dry), inner surface pilose between the carpels; carpels very numerous, ovary densely pi-lose, stigma prominent. Drupes numerous, up to 25 mm stipitate, ovoid, 18 by 11 mm.
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