Tree. Young branchlets very thick, sparsely pubescen' or glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous or chartaceous, spirally arranged in dense clusters at the ends of the branchlets, subsessile or shortly petiolate, shining, glabrous or appressed-pubescent mainly on the midrib and principal veins and sometimes on the lamina, minutely verruculose above, obscurely pellucid-punctate, spathulate, 15-26 by 6-9½ cm, rounded at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base and decurrent into the short thick petiole; petiole 5-7 mm, or sometimes scarcely developed, with two large subopposite glands at the apex or at the base of the lamina. Flowers large for the genus in axillary spikes c. 12 cm long; rhachis appressed-pubescent. Bracts narrowly elliptic, 10-15 mm long, fulvo-sericeous, persistent. Lower receptacle (ovary) c. 2 mm long, fulvo-sericeous; upper receptacle cupuliform, about 5 by 7 mm, nearly glabrous. Calyx-lobes deltoid about 2 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 15 mm; anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long. Disk sparsely pilose or nearly glabrous. Style 17 mm, glabrous. Fruit circumalate suborbicular or broadly obovate in outline, 1.7-3 by 1.7-2½ cm, tomentellous or appressed-pubescent.
Uses. The wood is used for house posts, beams, joists, and general framing work. Not plentiful ( Reyes Commonw. Philip. Dept Agr. Techn. Bull. 7 1938 367 Brief comments ).
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