A glabrous tree, 30–40 ft. high. Leaves oval-oblong, sometimes lanceolate-elliptical, shortly acuminate, finely membranous, entire or faintly undulate, 4–7 in. long, 1 3/4–3 in. broad; curved secondary nerves rather prominent below. Petioles 1/2–1 1/4 in. long. Flowers usually from the axils of fallen leaves on shoots of the previous season, solitary or in fascicles of 2, 3 or more, on erect, firm, straight peduncles, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, about 1 3/4–2 1/4 in. diam. Sepals 3, deciduous. Petals numerous, half as long again as the sepals. Anthers linear, without a terminal appendage. Ovary glabrous, soon showing numerous longitudinal furrows, which in the young lanceolate-oblong fruit (which only I have seen) are bounded by strongly-marked, much crisped or wavy ridges, confluent in pairs below and above. Style rigid; stigma obtuse, undivided or denticulate, the extremity apparently more or less resolved at length into a minute viscous or semifluid drop. The fruit narrows at the top to an obtuse point.
