A tall, extensive tree, with the habit of a Vitex; branchlets slightly sulcate, rusty-puberulous when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves digitate; petiole up to 8 in. long, sulcate, puberulous; leaflets 5–8, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, more or less acuminate, very acute at the base, up to 7 in. long and 2 1/2 in. broad, papery or subcoriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 8–10 on each side, looped, in the larger leaflets prominent below, in the smaller scarcely visible; petiolules up to 3/4 in. long, grooved above. Male flowers in lax pedunculate axillary cymes; cymes brown-puberulous. Calyx-segments 5–7, rounded, rusty-pubescent. Stamens 5–10, inserted outside the disk; filaments free. Disk very thick, densely pubescent. Rudimentary ovary filiform, truncate, glabrous, hidden by the disk. Female flowers unknown. Capsule depressed-globose, 1 in. in diam., 3-celled, loculicidal; pericarp hard, woody, about 3/4 lin. thick; seeds 2 in each cell, or 1 by abortion, obliquely obovoid, about 5 lin. long, slightly compressed; testa crustaceous; albumen copious; cotyledons flat, very broad.
