Tree. Leaves coriaceous, shiny above, glabrous, elliptic, 20 by 8 cm, rounded or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 12-14 pairs; petiole glabrous, 1½-2 cm. Flowers not known. Fruit very woody, probably appressed-pubescent when young (traces of indumentum remain) almost glabrous or glabrous when mature, compressed ovoid-ellpsoid or compressed ellpsoid, 6-7 by 3-4 by 1½-1.8 cm, narrowly circumalate, wing rigid, 4 mm broad, showing in cross-section an irregular mass of scleren-chyma enclosing a few small scattered air-chambers.
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