A tree 3-20 m tall with trunk up to 0 • 6 m diam. and twigs rather thick and soft; the very young parts sometimes brown-tomentose but soon glabrous. Leaves petiolate, glabrous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 cm long, 1-5-4 cm broad, tapering into petiole, apex subacute, rounded or sometimes emarginate, rather thick and veins mostly sunken, margins slightly recurved when dry, minutely and sometimes obscurely gland-dotted on both surfaces; petiole 5-15 mm long, slightly grooved along upper surface and sometimes with few hairs along margin in young stage. Inflorescence in few—several-flowered fascicles from the axils of the lower leaves or from above leaf scars or on very abbreviated twigs; bracts minute, broadly ovate; pedicels stout, 3-5 mm long, angular, glabrous, functionally male, female or bisexual. Calyx 5-parted with segments ovate-lanceolate, minutely ciliate. Corolla 3-4 mm long, united into a tube about 1 mm long, lobes oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, minutely papillose along the inner margin, dark spotted. Stamens inserted within the corolla tube, sessile or subsessile; anthers oblong, 1 • 5 mm long, minutely papillose on the obtuse apex. Ovary with very short style and thick stigma. Drupe globose, 4-5 mm diam.—Fig. 2:1.
