Shrub or small tree 3-8 m. tall, with rough bark; branchlets spreading setose-pubescent with dense short hairs and pilose with longer fulvous hairs. Leaves drying dull brown or grey-green, ± obtriangular-oblong, 3-10.5 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, truncate or emarginate at the apex but usually also shortly cuspidate, gradually tapered from near the apex to the slightly cordate base, rather sparsely pilose and pubescent, later glabrous above, velvety-tomentose beneath, ciliate; secondary nerves in 5-6 pairs, prominent beneath; petiole up to 9 mm. long. Male flowers 4-merous in usually 3-flowered axillary cymes; peduncle up to 1.5 cm. long; pedicels up to 8 mm. long; bracts leafy, opposite, lanceolate, 9 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, abruptly acuminate; inflorescence-axes, etc. with a mixture of long spreading hairs, short setae and reddish glandular hairs; calyx 4 mm. long; calyx-lobes triangular or ovate-acuminate, tomentellous on both surfaces, the margins reduplicate; corolla cream, 4-5 mm. long, lobed almost to the base, the lobes glabrous, subacute; disc fimbriate; stamens 8, 2.5-3 mm. long, the filaments very short, glabrous; anthers lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long, densely sericeous pubescent; rudimentary ovary conical, 1 mm. long, minutely tomentellous, with 8 locules; styles 4, glabrous. Female flowers unknown. Fruit yellow-green, globose, 1.5-2.8 cm. diameter, fulvous-velvety; calyx accrescent completely concealing the fruit, the lobes ovate, 2-4.1 cm. long, 1.5-2.2 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, velvety tomentose. Fig. 2/11; fig. 6/1-2.
