An evergreen tree 50 to 100 ft. high; branchlets ferruginously pubescent when young. Leaves shortly petioled, dark green, stiff and thinly coriaceous, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or elliptic-obovate, acuminate, mucronulate, narrowing at the unequal base, margin weakly serrate in the upper portion, 2 3/4–5 1/4 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. wide, 1-nerved, lateral nerves 3–5 on each side, the lowest pair springing from the base ascending and prominent for about half the length of the leaf, the others patent-ascending, nerves prominent below; with adpressed ferruginous hairs when young, ultimately glabrous; petiole 3–4 lin. long, puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, 2 lin. long. Inflorescences axillary on young leafy shoots, densely ferruginously hairy. Male flowers almost sessile, crowded in a few many-flowered clusters below; fertile (ćF;) one or two above, stalked; flowers pentamerous. Sepals elliptic-oblong, about 1 lin. long, Ovary densely ferruginously hairy. Stigmas long, linear, 2-fid, branches bilobed at the apex; drupe ovoid attenuated towards the apex, glabrous, green, with 4 narrow keels when immature, scarlet and succulent when ripe, with a 4-ribbed stone (Welwitsch), nearly 1/2 in. long.
