Tree 10-15 m. Bark grey-brown. Wood hard, brown. Young branchlets at first appressed-rufo-pubescent, soon becoming glabrous, sympodial in growth. Leaves subcoriaceous, crowded at the slightly thickened apices of the branchlets, shiny and glabrous above, only very obscurely verruculose, opaque, elliptic, obovate-ellptic, obovate or oblanceolate, 8-13 by 2½-6 cm, rounded, obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base; nerves 6-10 pairs, domatia rather inconspicuous, occasionally with a few hairs; petiole glabrous in mature leaves, 1-2 cm. Flowers white, in axillary spikes 6-8 cm long; rhachis glabrous when mature. Bracts filiform, 1 mm, glabrous, early caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) glabrous, 2½ mm long; upper receptacle glabrous shallow-cupuliform, 1 by 3 mm. Calyx-lobes deltoid, 1½ mm long. Filaments glabrous, 2½ mm; anthers ½ mm long. Disk densely pilose. Fruit red when ripe, glabrous, when dried compressed-ellpsoid, 2½-3½ by 1½-2.6 by 0.8-1.2 cm, longitudinally circumalate with a rigid wing 2-3 mm broad, sometimes with 2-3 additional longitudinal ridges, sometimes flat on one face and convex on the other, showing in cross-section a rather thick, irregularly elliptic al band of sclerenchymatous tissue and little or no alveolar tissue.
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