tree 60 ft. high, trunk 3 ft. in. diam.; branches sulcate, glabrous; flowering twigs rusty stellate-puberulous; leaves alternate, long-petioled, thinly chartaceous, palmately 5-nerved at the base, midrib 4-jugately penninerved, ovate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, somewhat caudate-acuminate, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin more or less distinctly serrulate, 1 1/2–5 in. long, 1–4 in. wide, dark green, glabrous above, sparingly stellate-pubescent on the nerves beneath; petiole slender, 1–4 in. long, sparingly stellate-pubescent, with 2 very prominent glands at point of junction with blade; stipules linear, stellate-pubescent, caducous; racemes androgynous, up to 6 in. long, at ends of twigs, with many male flowers and a few females accompanying throughout the raceme; rhachis sulcate, rather closely stellate-pubescent; bracts subulate-lanceolate, several-flowered; male pedicels 1–1 1/4 lin. long, female pedicels under 1 lin. long; male sepals 5, narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, membranous, thinly stellate-pubescent externally; petals 5, narrow oblong, as long as sepals, glabrous externally, the tip and margin within white-villous; disc-glands small; stamens 15–20; filaments slender, glabrous; receptacle villous; female sepals like the males; petals rudimentary; disc deeply 5-lobed, glabrous; ovary tomentose with stellate hairs; styles 2-partite to the base, the segments linear, glabrous; capsule subglobose, 1/3 in. across, shortly stellate-pubescent; seeds subglobose, smooth. null
