Large tree 20-50 m. Young branchlets sym-podial, glabrous or nearly glabrous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, spirally arranged and rather crowded at the ends of the branchlets, glabrous or sparsely minutely appressed-pubescent, rather inconspicuously minutely verruculose above, narrowly elliptic, 3-15 by 1.2-5 cm, blunt or pointed at the apex, cuneate at the base and decurrent into the petiole, nerves 9-11 pairs; petiole 5-10 mm, glabrous, with 2 glands (sometimes inconspicuous) near the apex. Flowers white, sessile, in short axillary spikes, 3-5 cm long; rhachis glabrous. Bracts filiform, 1 mm. Lower receptacle (ovary) glabrous, 5 mm long, narrowed at base and apex; upper receptacle shallow-cupuliform, glabrous, 1 by 2 mm. Calyx-lobes glabrous, broadly ovate, 1 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 2½-3 mm; anthers ½ mm long. Disk densely pilose. Style glabrous, 2 mm. Fruit glabrous, elliptic al in outline 4-5½ by 2-2½ cm, 2-winged, wings confluent at base and apex (circumalate), 7-10 mm broad.
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