A tree, 100–120 ft. high, with a slender stem and roundish crown; old bark rough, brown; wood reddish, very hard; branchlets glabrous, dark brown when dry. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, shortly attenuated or rounded at the base, 4–7 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous, pubescent in bud, very soon quite glabrous; lateral nerves 6–8, slightly impressed above, venation obscure; petioles about 10 lin. long, with a wide shallow channel in the upper part. Flower-heads usually from the axils of fallen leaves, about 3 1/2 lin. in diam., surrounded by broad hairy deciduous bracts; pedicels scarcely 1/2 lin. long. Perianth under 1/2 lin. long, 4- (rarely 3-) lobed, tomentellous without; lobes ovate, obtuse. Anthers 3. Ovary densely tomentose. Axis of fruit-bearing branch thickened, on a short peduncle, up to 8 lin. long. Fruit oblong, 1 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in. in diam., shortly stipitate, rufous-tomentellous; suture of valves acute at the base; aril minutely lobed at the apex.
