Tree 10 m; branchlets terete, ± densely covered with appressed, rusty hairs, soon glabrescent. Leaves broad-oblong to obovate-oblong, subcoriaceous, +-rounded, but 1-1½ cm cuspidate at the very apex, broadly cuneate at the base, dilutely olivaceous and shining above, pale greyish beneath, practically glabrous, but with very few, solitary, bristle-like hairs on the under surface specially on the nerves and midrib, rather densely hirsute towards the base, (16-)20-3 5 by (6.5-)9-14(-17) cm; midrib nearly flat above, very prominent beneath, nerves rather straight and subparallel, slightly curved and anastomosing near the leaf-margin, very little raised above, distinctly so beneath, veins irregularly transverse, rather coarsely reticulate, little prominent above, more so beneath; petiole stout, 2-3 mm diam., rather densely ferrugineous-hirsute, (2½-)3-4(-9) cm. Inflorescences solitary, rather densely ferrugineous-pubescent, up to 35 cm long. ♂ Flowers: only seen in buds on c. 10 cm long spike-like racemes. Pedicels 2 mm. Calyx densely ferrugineous-pilose. Petals 4, thin; scale ovate, densely ferrugineous-villose. Stamens 5; column glabrous. ♀ Inflorescence not seen. Fruit transverse-oblong, 2-seeded, 1.5 by 2.5 cm, covered with a short rusty-brown tomentum, tubercles not very prominent; stigmas reniform, impressed lengthwise. Seeds globular-ovoid, c. 1 cm diam.
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