tree 15–50 ft. high; branches cylindric, distinctly lenticellate, glabrous; flowering twigs sparingly grey stellate-pubescent, soon glabrous; leaves alternate, long-petioled, thinly chartaceous, palmately 5-nerved at the base, midrib 3–5-jugately penninerved, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, usually caudate-acuminate, base truncate or slightly cordate, margin irregularly crenate-serrate, 2–4 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. wide, medium green, at first sparingly stellate-pubescent, but soon quite glabrous and finely rather closely verruculose above, sparsely grey stellate-pubescent with soft long-rayed hairs beneath; petiole slender, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, at first sparingly softly stellate-pubescent, but soon glabrous, with 2 very prominent glands 1/12– 1/20 in. below point of junction with blade; stipules linear-lanceolate, sparingly stellate-pubescent, caducous; racemes androgynous, usually 2 1/2–3 in. sometimes up to 5 in. long, at ends of twigs, with 12–20 male flowers in the upper third and 8–12 females in the lower third; rhachis angular, rather closely to sparingly grey stellate-pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, stellate-pubescent; male pedicels 2 lin. long, female pedicels 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; male sepals 5, oblong-ellipsoid, obtuse, 1 1/3 lin. long, membranous, glabrous on both sides, rather densely ciliate in the upper half; petals 5, narrow elliptic, 2 lin. long, glabrous externally, densely ciliate; disc-glands fleshy, glabrous; stamens 15–16, filaments slender, glabrous; receptacle villous: female sepals 5, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long, shortly ciliate in the upper half and with a few stellate hairs in the centre externally; petals obsolete; disc crenulate, fleshy, glabrous; ovary densely white-tomentose with stellate hairs; styles deeply 2-partite, the segments linear and again 2-partite nearly to the base, glabrous, fleshy, slightly wrinkled; capsule broadly ellipsoid, not lobed, 1 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 in. across, when ripe shortly sparingly stellate-puberulous or nearly glabrous; seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 3/4 in. long, 1/3 in. across, testa dull, greyish-brown, smooth. null