Tree up to 6 meters high; young branchlets covered with crisp hairs. Leaves on petioles 3-5 mm. long, finally glabrous on both sides, but densely verruculose beneath and thinly appressed-hairy on the midrib beneath, lanceolate, broadest at the middle and equally narrowed and acute at both ends, 8-12 cm. long and 2.0-3.5 cm. broad. (Flowers unknown). Fruits on very short rigid pedicels (2-3 mm.); monocarps glabrous, black when dried, ellipsoid, 12-15 mm. long and 9-10 mm. across; stipes 1-1.5 mm. long.
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