A tree up to nearly 40 ft. high; branchlets thick, longitudinally grooved when dry, very minutely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves large, pandurate, apex truncate or rounded and often broadly emarginate with sometimes a very short obtuse acumen in the middle, cordate with a narrow sinus at the base, 6–12 in. long. 5–7 in. broad across the widest part which is about a third of the whole length from the apex, entire, rigidly coriaceous, dull and glabrous on both surfaces, 9–10-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 4–5 on each side, spreading from the very thick midrib at an angle of 40°, becoming longitudinally grooved on both surfaces when dry, very prominent below, looped and branched well within the margin; tertiary nerves few, arising from the lateral almost at a right angle, slightly prominent below; veins very close and distinct on the lower surface; petiole stout, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. broad, longitudinally grooved below, channelled above, and wrinkled with transverse lines when dry, glabrous; stipules persistent, narrowly triangular, gradually and acutely acuminate, 1 3/4–2 in. long, 3/4 to nearly 1 in. broad at the base, entire, chartaceous, striate within, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, sessile, globose, about 1 3/4 in. in diam. when fresh, with walls about 2 lin. thick, finely puberulous outside; basal bracts about 3 (Warburg), triangular, adpressed to the receptacle. Ostiole subdepressed; bracts lanceolate. Receptacular wall thick, wrinkled and puberulous outside. Male perianth-segments 3, ovate-lanceolate. Stamen solitary; anther ovoid, obtuse. Female perianth-segments 3, ovate, obtuse. Style rather short; stigma short, suboblique, papillose.
