Tree 15 m. Young branchlets rather stout, at first golden or fulvous-sericeous, later appressed-pubescent, finally glabrous. Leaves papyraceous or chartaceous, spirally arranged at the ends of the branchlets, sparsely appressed-pilose or almost glabrous, manifestly minutely verruculose above, rather obscurely pellucid-punctate, obovate or obovate-ellptic, 7-20 by 4-8½ cm, rounded and usually acuminate or obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, usually with 2 black (when dried) glands on each side of the midrib about 5-10 mm from the base; nerves 10-16 pairs, domatia usually present but not hairy; petiole sericeous, eventually sparsely sericeous or nearly glabrous, 1-2 cm. Flowers in axillary spikes 5-10 cm long; rhachis appressed-pubescent. Bracts hairy, filiform, 1-2 mm, soon caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) glabrous or nearly so, sometimes with a few ap-pressed hairs, 1½-2½ mm long; upper receptacle glabrous, shallow-cupuliform, 1 by 2½-3 mm. Calyx-lobes deltoid or ovate, 1 by 1 mm, glabrous outside, hairy within. Filaments glabrous, 3-4 mm; anthers 0.6-0.7 mm long. Disk barbate. Style glabrous, 3.5-4 mm. Fruit glabrous, ellpsoid, at both ends, 3-3½ by 1.3-1½ cm when dried, showing in cross-section a circular band of scleren-chymatous tissue surrounding the loculus extended into 4-6 very irregular, radial projections partially enclosing honey-combed air-chambers between them.
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