a shrub or small tree; branchlets covered with greyish glabrous bark; leaves oblanceolate or obovate-oblanceolate, obtusely pointed or rounded at the apex, narrowed to the base, 1 3/4–3 1/4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, entire, chartaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces; midrib flat above, prominent below, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade; lateral nerves 8–9 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of 45° or less, looped near the margin, prominent but rather slender below; tertiary nerves only slightly less prominent than the lateral and parallel with them; petiole comparatively short, 1/3–1 in. long, glabrous; stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 2 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous; receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, pedunculate, obovoid-globose, stipitate at the base, about 2 in. long, with a very large smooth ostiolar prominence, the rest wrinkling when dry like a dried plum; peduncle 2–3 1/2 lin. long, rather slender, glabrous; basal bracts early caducous, leaving behind the small persistent unilateral base, glabrous; ostiole small and pore-like; bracts few, all descending into the receptacle, glabrous; male flowers with a solitary stamen; female flowers sessile, gall ones stalked. null
