Tree 12-20 m. Young branchlets rufous-appress-ed-pilose, slender. Leaves subcoriaceous, spirally arranged, somewhat crowded at the ends of the branchlets, at first appressed-pubescent especially on the nerves, later almost glabrous, rather shiny above, not verruculose, opaque, elliptic to obovate, 3½-8 by 1½-4½ cm, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base; nerves 5-6 pairs with glabrous domatia; petiole at first appressed-pubescent later glabrescent, 8-18 mm, usually with 2 glands a little above the middle. Flowers sessile, in axillary spikes 3-4 cm long, rhachis appressed-pubescent. Bracts filiform, hairy, 2 mm. Lower receptacle (ovary) rufous-tomentellous, 1½ mm long; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes hairy, ovate-triangular, 2 by 1 mm, reflexed at the tips. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm; anthers 0.8 mm long. Disk barbate. Style not seen (hermaphrodite flowers all immature). Fruit glabrous or nearly glabrous when mature, ellpsoid or suborbicular ± laterally compressed, 6-7 by 4-5 by 3-3½ cm, usually shortly beaked at the apex showing in cross-section a very narrow band of sclerenchyma round the locu-lus and a thick corky layer with radiating fibres.
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