A tree 30–40 ft. high; young branches furnished with very short hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong, long-acuminate, symmetrical at the base, 6–8 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. wide, entire or with remote small teeth, membranous, penninerved; petiole 3–5 lin. long. Flowers in axillary fascicles of 4–5; pedicels very slender, up to 8 lin. long, hairy. Perianth obliquely campanulate, 1–1 1/2 lin. wide, unequally toothed, produced on one side into a narrow lip nearly 1 in. long. Disk adnate to the perianth-tube, and in the male almost closing it at the throat, in the female fleshy and protruded between the carpels. Stamens included; filaments short, broad, slightly connate; anthers ovate, introrse, 2-celled, opening upwards by valves. Carpels many, each one enclosed in a hollow of the disk; style subulate; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit (immature) subglobose, angled, fleshy, crowned by the withered perianth.
