A tree with smooth, cylindrical, purplish branches. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, not dotted, oblong, acute, rounded and oblique at the base, entire or obsoletely toothed at the margin; sometimes revolute, 5–6 in. long, 2 1/2 in. wide. Petiole less than 1/2 in. long. Flowers numerous, pedicellate, pedicels slightly villose, arranged in dense, sessile, axillary clusters. Sepals coriaceous, thin at the edges, oblong-obtuse, hooded. Staminal tube shorter than the calyx, dividing above the middle into 10 fertile and as many sterile stamens, the latter ribbon-like, pilose, as long as the fertile filaments. Ovary oblong; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit coriaceous, indehiscent, 1-celled, oblong, acute, somewhat five-lobed, 5 or 6 times longer than the persistent deflexed calyx.
