Tree 21 m. Young branchlets rather stout, at first rufous-sericeous, soon sparsely appressed-pubescent, at length glabrescent. Leaves subcoriaceous, spirally arranged, glabrous above, appearing resinous or glutinous beneath, almost glabrous or sometimes pubescent on the nerves, elliptic or obovate elliptic, 8-13 by 4½-8½ cm, somewhat acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 8-11 pairs with glabrous domatia; petiole at first rufous-sericeous, later sparsely appressed-pubes-cent or glabrous, 1½-2 cm. Flowers (not seen) in axillary spikes 14 cm long; rhachis almost glabrous. Bracts not seen. Fruit glabrous, ellpsoid, somewhat beaked at the apex, irregularly verrucose and also rather densely minutely verruculose, 4-5 by 1½-2 cm, showing in cross-section some honey-combed tissue around the loculus surrounded by a thick band of sclerenchyma with short radial spoke-like projections.
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