a tree, 20–40 ft. high; branchlets pubescent when young, soon becoming quite glabrous, with conspicuous scattered lenticels; leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic or obovate, shortly acuminate and subacute or obtuse at the apex, slightly cuneate or rounded at the base, 2–7 in. long, 1–3 in. broad, slightly coriaceous, often shining and glabrous above, glabrous or minutely puberulous below; lateral nerves ascending, slightly oblique, 8–16 on each side, continued to the margin and forming a marginal nerve, prominent below; tertiary nerves more or less inconspicuous; petiole stout, 2–5 lin. long, wrinkled, densely pubescent or puberulous; stipules caducous; bracts pubescent; male flowers shortly stalked; sepals triangular, subsessile, 1/2 lin. long, pubescent towards the base; petals small, obovate-cuneate, trilobed or dentate; disc thick and fleshy; rudimentary ovary truncate or trifid, very short; female flowers sessile: sepals as in the male; petals ovate, entire; disc almost enclosing the ovary, ciliate, densely pilose outside; ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles 2, 2-lobed, glabrous; fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, 2–3 lin. in diam., 1-celled. null
