Tree, 15 m. Young branchlets rather thick, 4-5-angled near the apex, at first fulvous-sericeous-tomentose but very soon becoming glabrous, growth sympodial. Leaves coriaceous, spirally crowded at the ends of the branchlets, sparsely sericeous-pilose when young, soon becoming shiny and glabrous, minutely verruculose above, narrowly obovate-spathulate, obovate-ellptic or narrowly elliptic, 5-20 by 2-7½ cm rounded or obtuse at the apex, rounded or subcordate and 2-glandular at the base; nerves 11-12 pairs; petiole thick, 3-5 mm, at first fulvous-tomentose soon glabrescent. Flowers sessile in axillary spikes up to 17 cm long; rhachis rather stout, minutely appressed-pubescent or almost glabrous. Bracts filiform, 1½ mm long. Lower receptacle (ovary) fulvo-sericeous 3½-4 mm long; upper receptacle cupuliform, 3-3½ by 5-5½ mm, outside viscid almost glabrous, inside sericeous-pilose with glabrous ovate-acuminate calyx-lobes about 3 mm long. Filaments glabrous 12-13 mm; anthers 1 mm long. Disk almost glabrous. Style glabrous, 11 mm. Fruit ovate in outline, glabrous, 2½ by 1.7 cm, 2-winged, wings 5 mm broad.
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