A tree 20–30 ft. high; branches fairly stout, about 2 1/2 lin. thick, sulcate, closely puberulous and glandular; young branchlets fairly densely leafy, almost tomentulose. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rounded to a shortly mucronate apex, mostly truncate and unequal-sided at the base, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, rigidly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, mostly dentate or subserrate all round the margin, rarely subentire, glandular on both surfaces, more densely so below, otherwise glabrous; midrib prominent below; lateral nerves 12–16 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it almost at right angles, mostly distinctly 2-furcate towards the margin, slender, prominent on both surfaces; ultimate venation scarcely visible; petiole 2–3 lin. long, glandular and shortly pubescent. Flowers monœcious. Male spikes axillary, mostly about twice as long as the petiole or sometimes racemosely arranged on long leafless shoots; rhachis velvety-tomentulose; bracts very broadly obovate, nearly 1 lin. long, submembranous, ciliate, glandular and pubescent outside; stamens about 6; anthers very sparingly pubescent. Female spikes borne at the base of the young shoots, or axillary, and then about twice the length of the petiole, sometimes with one or two flowers at the base; bracts broadly triangular, about 1 lin. long, submembranous, glandular and slightly pubescent outside, ciliate; hypogynous scales pubescent and glandular; ovary pubescent and glandular; styles flattened, broad, acute, 3/4 lin. long. Fruits ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, closely warted.
