a tall forest tree, up to 60 ft. high, with a trunk 30 in. in diam.; branchlets glabrous with a greyish-brown bark; leaves petioled, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 3–6 in. long, 1/2–1 in. wide, coriaceous, drying olive-green, glossy above, glabrous; lateral nerves numerous, very oblique, joining in short faint loops near the margin, like the veins raised on both sides; petiole up to 1/3–1 in. long, glabrous; inflorescence spicate, shortly peduncled, very dense, cylindrical, stout, 4–6 in. long; rhachis very minutely reddish-pubescent; bracts very broadly ovate, acute, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, reddish-pubescent; adult flower-bud gently curved upwards, with a somewhat stout tube and a clavate subobtuse limb, not much wider than the tube, 9–10 lin. long, very finely reddish-tomentellous; perianth-sheath abruptly spreading and flattened out from below the middle; limbs linear-oblong, subacute, over 3 lin. long, those of the sheath permanently united, except at the tips, and conniving; anthers subsessile, linear, 2 3/4 lin. long; apical gland ovoid, subacute: hypogynous scales subulate-lanceolate, 1 lin. long; ovary ovoid, covered with whitish hairs, up to 4 lin. long; style 8 lin. long, slightly curved, glabrous; stigma linear in outline, quadrangular, to over 2 lin. long, passing with an obscure bend into the style. null
