A small tree, monœcious; branchlets glabrescent. Leaves shortly petioled, ultimately thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic, apex more or less acuminate, base unequal, blunt to rounded, margin entire or with a few short irregular teeth in the upper portion, 2 3/4–5 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4–3 in. wide, glabrous, upper face hard, 3-nerved, nerves somewhat depressed above, prominent below, cross-veins more or less parallel, prominulous; petioles 1/4– 1/2 (rarely 3/4) in. long. Inflorescences much shorter than the leaves, barely exceeding the length of the petiole to about one-third the length of the leaf; male flowers numerous, sessile or shortly stalked; fertile flowers above, few, with longer stalks. Sepals concave, elliptic, puberulous on the back, barely 1 lin. long. Ovary glabrous, with a dense ring of white hairs at the base. Stigmas broadly linear, fleshy, somewhat flattened, shortly 2-lobed at the apex; drupe ellipsoid, pale brown, 5 lin. long.
