Trees to 25 m tall; terminal buds yellow-brown puberulent. Branches dark brown when dry, lenticels present; branchlets glabrous. Leaves fascicled at twig apices; petiole 1-2.5(-3.5) cm, glabrous; leaf blade variable, usually narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, rarely ovate, 10-15(-20) × 3-5(-7) cm, thinly leathery, glabrous, abaxially rarely pubescent in vein axils only, lateral veins 7-9 per side, base narrow and obtuse, rarely slightly cordate, margin irregularly crenulate, apex acute or acuminate. Flowers terminal in raceme; peduncle and pedicels puberulent. Sepals 4, ovate, 6-7 mm, both surfaces puberulent. Petals white, both surfaces puberulent, ca. as long as sepals or slightly longer, 6-or 7-incised at apices. Stamens ca. 92, ca. as long as petals; filaments 1-2.5 mm, puberulent; anthers ca. 5 mm, puberulent, awn 1-2 mm. Ovary brown tomentose; style extending beyond stamens, 5-6 mm. Disk cushion-shaped. Capsule variable in size, (3 or)4-or 5(or 6)-valved; valves 2.5-5 cm, 3-5 mm thick; endocarp purple-red or yellow-brown; prickles 1-2 cm; stipe of capsule 2.5-6 cm, usually robust. Seeds black-brown, shiny, 1.2-1.5 cm, lower 1/2 enclosed by yellow aril. Fl. Jul, fr. unknown.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 15 m high. The leaves are oval and 9-22 cm long by 3-8 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are greenish-white. They are 1 cm across and in groups os 5-13. The fruit is round and woody. It is 3 m long. It splits open by 4 or 5 valves. There are 2-4 seeds.
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