Tree, 30–40 ft. high; twigs grey- or rusty-stellate scurfy. Leaves distinctly petioled, orbicular-cordate, acute or obtuse, entire, 4–8 in. long, as much across, very firm, green, sparingly hirsute and stellate-scurfy on nerves and reticulations above, beneath closely and uniformly clothed with a fine felted tomentum intermixed with small flat glands; petiole sparingly scurfy; stipules linear. Male flowers sessile or subsessile, copiously panicled, in bud globose, 1 1/2 lin. wide when open; rhachis and panicle-branches scurfy. Calyx usually sparingly hirsute towards the apex. Stamens 25–30; filaments slender, considerably longer than the anthers; connective usually with 3 (rarely with a solitary) apical glands; extra-staminal scales oblong, truncate or emarginate. Female flowers in branched racemes, branches not very copious, small, 2 lin. long, 3 lin. wide. Sepals linear-lanceolate, pubescent, connate below in a short tube. Ovary rather closely strigose; styles narrow, with 2 linear lobes. Capsule 3-coccous, dark brown, pubescent, 4 lin. long, as much across. Seeds subglobose, hilum prolonged downwards on inner side.
