a small tree, about 15 ft. high; branchlets brown-tomentose when young, at length becoming glabrous; leaves broadly elliptic or obovate-rotundate, rounded or truncate and sometimes slightly cordate at the base, 1 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–3 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous, shortly and rather densely pubescent below; lateral nerves 9–12 on each side, branched towards the margin, but finally reaching it and forming a marginal nerve; tertiary nerves close, slightly prominent below; veinlets not or scarcely prominent below; petiole 2–2 1/2 lin. long, densely pubescent; stipules lanceolate or subulate-lanceolate, 2–3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, densely pubescent; male flowers subsessile or shortly pedicellate; sepals ovate-triangular, 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, pubescent outside; petals broadly obovate, slightly toothed in the upper half, 1 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, glabrous; disc broad and flat, glabrous; staminal column 3/4 lin. long, the free part of the filaments 1/3 lin. long, very slender towards the apex; anthers 2/3 lin. long, glabrous; rudimentary ovary 1/2 lin. long, much swollen at the base, glabrous; female flowers very shortly pedicellate; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1 1/2 lin. long, rusty-pubescent; petals oblong-lanceolate, 2/3 the length of the sepals; disc cupular, lobed, glabrous; ovary glabrous; fruits 2-celled, transversely ellipsoid or subglobose, about 4 lin. in diam. null