a tall unarmed little branched tree, 70 ft. high; wood white, soft, hardening when kept; bark grey; leaves rather crowded towards ends of branches, firmly herbaceous, rather pale green, glabrous on both surfaces, obovate-oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowed from upper third to base, margin throughout minutely crisply crenulate, in young saplings 4 1/2 ft. long, 15 in. wide, on branches of mature trees 9–12 in. long, 4–5 in. wide; petiole very short, 3–4 lin. long, or obsolete; leaf-sheath short but distinct, 6 lin. long, deep-channelled above, connate with opposite leaf-sheath into an ochreate cup 3–4 lin. deep; cymes 3–5 times 3-furcate; main-peduncles 7–8 in. long, secondary 3–3 1/4 in., tertiary 1 1/4–2 in. long, ultimate branches 6 lin. long; bracts orbicular, squamous, coriaceous, 3–4 lin. long; pedicels stout, 2–3 lin. long; calyx 5 lin. long; tube subobsolete; lobes orbicular, thickly coriaceous; corolla yellowish-white, firmly fleshy, 2 1/4 in. long; tube narrowly infundibuliform-campanulate, 1 1/3–1 1/2 in. long, mouth 4 lin. wide; lobes 12–13, narrow-oblong, obtuse, at length reflexed, 9 lin. long, 3–4 lin. wide; stamens 12–13; filaments short; anthers linear, 3 lin. long, sagittate, connective dorsal slightly produced, apiculus obtuse; ovary glabrous, obovate, 4 lin. long; style exserted, 1 1/3 in. long; stigma enlarged cylindric, obtuse, faintly 2-lobed at apex and faintly 6-grooved laterally, 1 1/2 lin. long; fruit ovoid subacute, 1 1/2 in. long, 9 lin. in diam., 4-celled; seeds brown, shining; testa finely reticulated. null
