Shrub or small tree; twigs hispid; bud-scales persistent. Leaves short-petioled, membranous, ovate or narrow elliptic, rather abruptly acuminate, base rounded, margin distinctly but shortly toothed, 8–10 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. wide, pale green, hispid especially on the nerves on both surfaces or glabrous except for some hispid hairs on the nerves beneath, minutely verrucose; petiole hispid, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; stipules unmodified, hyaline-scarious, minute. Flowers small, in peduncled racemes; peduncles thin, wiry, glabrous, 1 1/4–2 in. long; pedicels glabrous, male 1/2–1 1/4 in. long. Male calyx green, glabrous, conic-pyramidal in bud; lobes 4, membranous. Stamens 50–54; outer 10, the rest central; filaments much shorter than the anthers; glands minute, hirsute, rhomboid, all inter-staminal. Female flowers unknown.