Tree. Young branchlets densely fulvous-appress-ed-pubescent, later glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous or subcoriaceous, spirally arranged and somewhat crowded at the ends of the branchlets, shiny and glabrous above except for some appressed pubescence on the midrib, with close prominent reticulation, rather densely appressed-puberulous beneath, eventually nearly glabrous, spathulate or oblanceolate, 4-9 by 2-4 cm, rounded or blunt at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 7-10 pairs, with rather prominent domatia in their axils; petiole sericeous, 2-8 mm. Flowers unknown. Fruits at first sparsely appressed-pubescent, becoming glabrous, ellpsoid, 2-2.8 by 1.2-1½ cm, sometimes somewhat laterally compressed, beaked at the apex, showing in cross-section a stellate band of sclerenchymatous tissue about 2 mm thick round the loculus with some air-chambers included in it and with short radial projections and a relatively wide outer band of alveolar tissue.
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