Tree. Young branchlets very thick, at first sparsely appressed-pubescent soon glabrous. Leaves subcoriaceous, spirally arranged, crowded at the end of the branchlets, glabrous, narrowly spathulate or narrowly obovate-ellptic, 10-13 by 3½-4½ cm, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, somewhat shiny above; petiole 5-7 mm, with 2 conspicuous glands at or near the apex. Flowers sessile in axillary spikes about 10 cm long; rhachis glabrous. Bracts (not seen) caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) 4-5 mm long, glabrous; upper receptacle cupuliform glabrous 3-4 by 4-6 mm. Calyx-lobes glabrous, deltoid, 2 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 10-12 mm long; anthers 0.8 mm long. Disk glabrous or nearly glabrous. Style glabrous, 11-12 mm. Fruit glabrous, suborbicular in outline, 1.6-2 cm in diameter, circumalate, usually emarginate at the base and apex.
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