A small tree, about 30 ft. high. Leaves oblong or elliptic, caudate-acuminate, more or less rounded at the base, 4 1/2–7 in. long, 2–3 1/2 in. broad, entire, very thinly coriaceous, glabrous and slightly shining on both surfaces, acumen 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; lateral nerves 5–8, arcuate, raised on the lower surface; tertiary nerves subparallel, close and prominent; petiole glabrous, transversely rugose, 3–4 lin. long; stipules subulate from a triangular base. Flowers monœcious, in axillary fascicles, the females very few; pedicels slender, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous or puberulous. Male flowers: Sepals obovate or obovate-elliptic, 1 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, rounded at the apex, coriaceous, with slightly hyaline margins. Petals suborbicular, slightly toothed, 1/3 the length of the sepals. Disk small, annular, entire, glabrous. Stamens 5–6; filaments shortly connate at the base, inserted within the disk; anthers 1 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary tripartite, reaching almost as high as the top of the anthers, glabrous, lobes truncate. Female flowers: Sepals, petals and disk as in the male. Ovary ovoid. Capsule trilobed, about 5 lin. in diam., with 2 brown shining seeds in each cell
