Trees of moderate size, 10 m. tall, with pyramidal crown; young branches minutely sericeous, becoming glabrous and blackish, densely lenticellate, the stouter with grayish bark. Leaf petioles at first puberulent, becoming glabrous and blackish, 3-5 mm. long, flat or channelled above; blades membranaceous-papyraceous, al-most concolorous, at first sericeous on both sides but soon glabrescent, beneath with some more or less persistent hairs along the midrib or completely glabrous, the whole surface finely verruculose-punctate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, narrowed toward the base and broadly acute or obtusish, cuspidate at the tip, 20-30 cm. long and 5-9 cm. broad, the veins on both sides prominent, 12-15, arcuate, ir-regularly gathered toward the margin. Inflorescences on leafless branches, about 1 cm. thick; pedicels thin, minutely sericeous, 2-4 mm. long, articulate about mid-way and bearing a minute bracteole. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, sericeous without, tri-angular and strongly connate. Petals valvate, broadly ovate, acute, the outer rather thick, glaucous-sericeous without, about 9 mm. long and 7 mm. broad, the inner thicker, 5-6 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad, the midrib sericeous without but other-wise glabrous. Stamens 1.5 mm. long. Pistils 14-18, the ovaries cylindric-prismic, glabrous save the hairy angles, 1.5-1.7 mm. long, the stigmas conic-ovoid, 1 mm. long, the ovules solitary, attached below midway, horizontal. Monocarps brown, globose, 11-12, glabrous, with a stipe about 1 cm. long.
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