a tree, 60–80 ft. high, with a straight clean trunk, 3–5 ft. in diam.; bark dark brown, rugged and scaly in old trees; young branches very minutely greyish pubescent at their tips, soon glabrous, drying dark brown or blackish; leaves alternate, elliptic to oblong, shortly acuminate, obtuse or subacute at the base, 2–4 in. long, 1–2 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, closely and prominently reticulated on both sides; usually large pits (acarodomitia) with ciliolate orifices on the underside in the axils of the lowest 1–2 pairs of nerves, the pits corresponding to large hollow tubercles on the upper side; petiole 1/2–1 in. long, channelled above; panicles from the axils of some of the uppermost leaves, lax, including the peduncles 2–3 in. long, about 1 in. wide, very finely and scantily pubescent at least in the upper part; peduncles 1/2 to over 1 in. long; bracts ovate, concave, very early deciduous, greyish-silky-pubescent; pedicels 1 (rarely 2) lin. long; flowers polygamous, perianth yellowish-white, finely pubescent without, 2 1/2 lin. across when quite open; receptacle hemispheric, 3/4 lin. high, glabrous within; segments spreading, subequal, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, ciliolate, glabrous within; stamens of the male and hermaphrodite flowers with linear glabrous filaments as long as the anthers; glands sessile, subglobose, on each side of the base of the stamens of the third whorl; staminodes narrow, acute, about 3/8 lin. long; stamens and staminodes of the female very much reduced; ovary immersed, but free, in the receptacle, like the slender style glabrous; stigma discoid; fruit oblong, 3/4 in. long, 1/3 in. in diam. seated in the cup-shaped enlarged receptacle which equals about 1/3 of the fruit. null
