a shrub or tree with the habit of Ulmus; branchlets slender, glabrous or very sparingly hairy when young; leaves ovate, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, rounded or subacute at the base, about 1 1/4 in. long, 6–8 lin. broad, rather thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 3–6 on each side, inconspicuous; petiole slender, 2–4 lin. long, sparingly pubescent; stipules soon falling off; male spikes racemosely arranged on short lateral branchlets crowded towards the ends of the branches, about 1/2 in. long; axis very slender, puberulous; bracts broadly spathulate, ciliate; calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes rounded, densely ciliate; anthers with a small gold-coloured gland on the back; rudimentary ovary equalling the filaments, entire, glabrous; female racemes axillary; bracts oblong, pubescent; calyx-lobes 5, linear, subequal, membranous, about 1 1/2 lin. long; ovary oblong, compressed, emarginate, glabrous, with a few scattered yellow glands; styles distinct, linear, flattened, glabrous, about 2 lin. long; fruits broadly obovate or suborbicular, apex emarginate, base rounded or acute, wings joined at the base and decurrent on the stipe, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam., glabrous, membranous; pedicels 2–3 lin. long, glabrous; stipe 1–2 lin. long. null