A tree 35–45 ft. high; trunk large (Vasse); branchlets grey, glabrous, scarred with prominent lenticels. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded and often emarginate at the apex, obtuse and slightly unequalsided at the base, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, prominently reticulate and glabrous on both surfaces, with about 7 pairs of much-branched lateral nerves; petiole 2 lin. long, slender, very slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules small and deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, tomentose within. Male flowers numerous, in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets; pedicel up to 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4–5, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1 1/3 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, rusty-tomentellous outside. Stamens 5–10, usually 8; filaments rather slender, glabrous, inserted outside the folds of the disk; anthers 3/4 lin. long. Disk large, glabrous and conspicuous, with folded margins, each fold half embracing a filament. Female flowers not known.
