a glabrous tree, 30–40 ft. high; branches stout, almost spongy, pallid, or the youngest blackish when dry; leaves crowded towards the tips of the branches, oblong, obtuse, subcuneate towards the base, 4–6 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, subcoriaceous, dull when dry; secondary nerves subhorizontal or rather oblique, almost straight, slender; petiole 4–6 lin. long; inflorescences usually geminate from the branch-forks, shortly racemiform or umbelliform, few-flowered; peduncle stout, 2–3 in. long; rhachis stout, gradually lengthening up to 1 1/2 in. as the lower flowers fall; bracts ovate, concave, up to 5 lin. long, caducous; pedicels stout, finally up to 6 lin. long; calyx wide-tubular, about 4 1/2–6 lin. long, early circumseissile at the base, with very numerous glands within; lobes rotundate, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; corolla waxy, yellowish white; tube subcylindric, slightly exserted from the calyx, more or less constricted above the middle, twisted above the constriction, glabrous; limb broadly ovoid in bud, 6 lin. long; lobes somewhat asymmetric, broadly obcordate, narrow at the base, 6–9 lin. long, 9–12 lin. broad, sinus shallow; anthers inserted close to the mouth of the corolla, exserted for half their length, 3 lin. long; disc cupular, entire or almost so, shorter than the ovary, persistent; style up to 7 lin. long; stigma shortly cylindric, grooved, with a frill at the base; berries of the size of a fist (Sutherland), with a thick rind; seeds numerous. null
