A tree of 30–40 ft., glabrous or with the extremities obsoletely puberulous. Leaves large, elongate oblanceolate-oblong, narrowed to the obtuse or narrowly-cordate base, cuspidate or sharply acuminate, glabrous, usually 9–15 in. long, 2 1/2–4 1/2 in. broad. Petioles very short and thick, 2–4 lines. Flowers 3/4–1 in. diam., nearly glabrous or thinly sericeous, on very short bracteate axillary peduncles; bracts deciduous. Sepals free, very broadly rotundate-ovate, shortly pointed, more or less imbricate at the base. Petals thick, purplish, connivent, outer ones nearly as broad as long, much exceeding the sepals and slightly imbricate below. Anthers very numerous, linear, truncate, and slightly capitate. Carpels numerous, shortly pubescent, upon the slightly excavated centre of the raised torus. Ovules 12–18, biseriate. The fruit has not been satisfactorily identified.
