Semi-deciduous buttressed tree, 30 m. Bark brown or pale brown, flaky. Sapwood pale, heart-wood red-brown. Young branchlets at first appress-ed-pubescent soon becoming sparsely pubescent or glabrous, growth sympodial. Leaves charta-ceous, spirally arranged and somewhat crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, obovate, obovate-ellptic or elliptic, 8-15 by 4-7 cm, rounded and shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, with numerous transverse canal-like mucilage cavities conspicuously visible with a lens on the upper surface and appearing translucent with transmitted light; nerves 9-13 pairs; domatia frequent, usually showing perforations of the lamina; petiole sparsely appressed-pubescent or glabrous, 1½-3 cm. Flowers white, in axillary spikes 10-13 cm long; rhachis appressed-pubescent. Bracts caducous. ♂ Flowers stalked; stalk appressed-pubescent, 1-1½ mm; Hermaphrodite fewer, at the base of the spike, sessile. Lower receptacle (ovary) sericeous, 2-2½ mm long; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes sparsely pubescent outside, pilosulose inside, triangular 2½ by 1½ mm. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm; anthers ½ mm long. Disk barbate. Style unknown. Fruit unknown.
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A tree. It grows 40 m tall. The trunk is straight and 80 cm across. The bark is pale brown and rough. The leaves can be spaced along the branches or clustered at the ends of branches. The leaves are 6.5-15 cm long by 4-8 cm wide. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves. They are white. The fruit are 35-40 mm long by 30-35 mm wide. The seed are 1-10 mm across. The fruit are red when ripe.
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