A shrub; branchlets slender, slightly sulcate, puberulous, nearly glabrous when older. Leaves ovate-elliptic, caudate-acuminate, acumen about 1/2 in. long, rounded and very unequal at the base, one half of the blade produced about 1/2 lin. below the other, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, papery, margin minutely crenulate-denticulate, glabrous and closely reticulate on both surfaces; midrib prominent on the lower side, glabrous; lateral nerves 4–5 on each side, distinctly looped some distance from the margin; veins and veinlets very close; petiole very short, hardly 1 lin. long, rather densely pubescent; stipules small, ovate. Male flowers 3–4 in each leaf-axil; pedicel 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4, suborbicular, 1 3/4 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, margin minutely ciliolate. Stamens about 15; filaments inserted amongst and between the lobes of the disk. Female flowers solitary or subsolitary in the axils of the leaves of the young branchlets; pedicel 1/4– 1/2 in. long (at least in the young fruit), shortly pubescent. Sepals 4, transversely elliptic or rounded, distinctly striate with about eight veins, leathery, glabrous except at the minutely ciliolate margin. Disk annular, entire, nearly flat, thick, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous; stigmas sessile, reflexed, flattened, bilobed, glabrous. Fruit globose, a little more than 1/2 in. in diam., hispid, light-brown, dull when dry; exocarp nearly 1 lin. thick, crustaceous; endocarp very hard, 1/2 lin. thick, yellowish-brown. Seeds flattened on the inner side; testa brown and reticulate; cotyledons large, flat, very thin, cordate at the base, palmately veined; albumen copious, fleshy.
