Tree 30 m. Young branchlets slender, at first rufous or fulvous-tomentellous, later becoming glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged along the branchlets or somewhat crowded towards their tips, subcoriaceous, shiny and almost glabrous above, very obscurely verruculose, sparsely puber-ulous on the nerves below, opaque, obovate-ellptic, 2½-7 by 7½-3.2 cm, rounded at the apex, rounded to subcuneate at the base; nerves 5-6 pairs, rather widely spaced, with glabrous domatia in their axils; petiole puberulous, 8-15 mm, with 2 glands near the apex. Flowers not known. Fruit subglobose, 3½ by 3 cm when dried, shiny, glabrous, corky, showing in cross-section only a narrow band of sclerenchymatous tissue round the loculus surrounded by a broad corky layer.
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