A tall glabrous tree; branches stout, pallid, or the youngest blackish when dry. Leaves crowded towards the tips of the branches, obovate to oblong, obtuse to subacute, subcuneate towards the base, 4–9 in. long, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. broad, dark green, shining when fresh, subcoriaceous, dull when dry; secondary nerves subhorizontal or rather oblique, almost straight, slender; petiole 4–9 lin. long. Inflorescences usually geminate from the branch-forks, shortly racemiform or umbelliform, few-flowered; peduncle stout, 4–5 in. long; rhachis stout, gradually lengthening up to 2 in. as the lower flowers fall; bracts ovate, concave, up to 5 lin. long, caducous; pedicels stout, finally up to 6 lin. long. Calyx wide-tubular, about 7–8 lin. long, early circumscissile at the base, with very numerous glands within; lobes rotundate, about 2 lin. long. Corolla white (or pale yellow?), sweet-scented, fleshy; tube subcylindric, not or scarcely exserted from the calyx, slightly constricted, 7–9 lin. long, twisted from the base upwards, quite glabrous; limb ovoid in bud, 8 lin. long; lobes somewhat asymmetric, broadly subobcordate, narrow at the base, about 1 in. long, up to almost 1 1/2 in. broad, sinus shallow. Anthers inserted close to the mouth of the corolla, exserted for half their length, slightly over 3 lin. long. Disc cupular, obscurely lobed, exceeding the ovary and adnate to it only at the base, persistent. Style up to 8 lin. long; stigma shortly cylindric, grooved, with a frill at the base. Berries globose, over 2 in. in diam., smooth; pericarp very thick, fleshy. Seeds about 4 lin. long, enveloped in a thick pulpy coat; testa almost smooth externally, slightly intruding into the albumen.
