Tree up to 50 m, buttressed to 2½ m, with spreading crown. Bark brown or grey, inner bark pink or brownish-red, sapwood straw-coloured, inner wood light brown. Young branchlets at first densely appressed-pubescent or appressed-pilose later glabrescent. Leaves spirally arranged along the branchlets, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, at first densely appressed-pubescent, later glabrescent, obscurely pellucid-punctate when young, opaque when older, elliptic, obovate-ellptic or oblong-ellptic, 6-15 by 3-7½ cm, blunt or rounded, sometimes' shortly acuminate or apiculate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 7-9 pairs; domatia present, sometimes hairy; petiole at first tomentellous or appressed-pubescent, later glabrescent, 8-14 mm. Flowers sessile in axillary spikes up to 4 cm long; rhachis densely sericeous. Bracts hairy, filiform, 1 mm, early caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) sericeous, 1 mm long; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes triangular, 0.8 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 1½-2 mm; anthers 0.3 mm long. Disk barbate. Style glabrous, 7½ mm. Fruit reddish-purple, densely appressed-pubescent when young and retaining at least some indumentum when old, compressed ellpsoid, pointed at the apex, circumalate with a narrow wing or ridge 1-2 mm broad and 2 or 3 accessory ridges also developed, especially towards the apex, 4-5 by 2½-3 by 1½-2 cm when dried; endocarp hard and very sclerenchymatous in cros-ssection, air-spaces poorly developed in a ring round the loculus.
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A tree up to 25 to 40 m tall. It often has buttresses. The leaves are clustered at the twig tips. The leaf stalks are less than 2 cm long. The leaves are 8.5 to 15 cm by 4-8 cm. They taper near the base. The flowers are 3-4 mm long and 1-3 fruit are produced per spike. The fruit are 4-6 cm long by 2.5 to 4.5 cm wide. They are green with 4-5 flanges. The fruit redden and become fleshy when ripe.
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