A large tree, up to 80 ft. high; branches and branchlets terete, covered with a light grey glabrous bark. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded or obtuse at the base, shortly and very obtusely acuminate, 2 1/4–4 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, shining on the upper surface, glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, gradually tapered to the apex; lateral nerves 5–6 on each side of the midrib, diverging at an angle of about 65°, looped some distance from the margin, slender, distinct on both surfaces; veins very lax and indistinct; petiole 4–5 lin. long, concave on the upper surface, glabrous; stipules caducous, the terminal one enclosing the young bud, lanceolate, 3–4 lin. long, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, solitary, shortly pedunculate; bract at the base of the peduncle cupular, enclosing the head of flowers when young, soon falling away, about 2 lin. long. coriaceous, glabrous; peduncle 1–1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous. Involucre fleshy at the base with the ovary immersed in it, with membranous toothed limb, glabrous. Male flowers numerous. Filaments slender, filiform, about 2 lin. long, glabrous; anthers very small, creamy white, purple around the styles, elliptic, obtuse, scarcely 1/3 lin. long. Bracts surrounding the style connate into a tube nearly as long as the stamens, laciniately toothed on the margin, submembranous, glabrous. Style exserted, stout, deeply 2-lobed or rarely 3-lobed; lobes about 1 3/4 lin. long. Fruit pedunculate, obliquely ellipsoid, 2/3 in. long.
