A tree 30 ft. or more high, the young portions densely covered with fine brown hairs; internodes of branches 7–10 lin. long, 3–5 lin. thick. Leaves leathery, more or less deeply 3–5-lobed, lobes elliptical-oblong, or completely divided into 5 or 7 oblong-elliptical or elliptical-oblanceolate to obovate leaflets, apex of lobes shortly acuminate, base truncate or subcordate, margin serrate-dentate, teeth small, upper face smooth, densely tomentose beneath between the closely reticulate veins, segments or leaflets 8–20 in. long and 3–7 in. broad, the median lobe and leaflet longer and slightly broader than the lateral, secondary nerves springing from the main nerve of the leaf-lobe at an angle of 45° and 5–7 lin. apart; petiole about half to three-quarters the length of the leaf, slightly furrowed. Male inflorescence with a peduncle 1 1/2–4 in. long, about 4 in. broad; branches slender, those of the last two grades covered with a continuous mass of flowers, ultimate branchlets with flowers 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long and 2 1/2 lin. thick; flowers generally 4-merous; sepals about 1/2 lin. long, broadly obovate, about equal in length to the narrower bracteoles; stamens with narrowly linear filaments, overtopping the perianth. Female inflorescences with a stalk to 1 1/4 in. long, and a head 7 lin. in diam., many-flowered. Head of fruit 1 1/2–2 in. in diam., stalk 2 in. long; fruits numerous, ovoid, slightly compressed, enclosed in the fleshy perianth, about 5 lin. long and 4 lin. broad.
