A small tree, 15 ft. high (Mann). Leafstalks 12–18 in. long, terete, more or less covered with rust-coloured stellate tomentum. Stipules linear-lanceolate, persistent. Leaves digitate, of 5–9 sessile, oblong, acuminate leaflets, as long as or longer than the common petiole, 5–6 in. across, entire or irregularly pinnately lobed; outermost lateral leaflets inequilateral, all smooth above, silvery-white beneath, with prominent reticulated nerves, covered with reddish-brown villi. Flowers numerous, produced from the old wood. Pedicels very short, 2–3-bracteolate. Calyx 1/2 in. long, campanulate, leathery, downy on the outside, crimson within and marked with small tubercles and striæ; limb 5-cleft; segments ovate, acute. Male fl.: Staminal column slender, cylindrical, scarcely so long as the calyx, terminated by a ring of 10 anthers, each with 2 parallel lobes, and concealing the rudiments of a 3-carpellary pistil. Female fl.: Anthers subsessile round the base of a 3-lobed, 3-celled, downy ovary, surmounted by 3 large, reflexed, red, fleshy stigmas. Ovules numerous. Fruit…
