A large tree 10-30 m high, with a girth at 2 m from the ground of 1 -5 m and over; trunk usually unbranched for 5 m or more; innovations, petioles, pedicels and calyx-lobes finely rusty velvety-tomentose. Leaves scattered on the branches, thinly coriaceous, exstipulate, 4-12 cm long and 2-4-5 cm wide, oblong or (ob-) ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, more or less rounded at the base, dark glossy green above, lighter and dull beneath, glabrous when mature, except near the midrib and at the very base near the petiole beneath, with reflexed edge; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves about 11 per cm, patent but not quite perpendicular to the midrib, often forked, almost straight, parallel; petioles 5-12 mm long. Flowers 2-2 • 5 mm long, nearly globose, in up to 20-flowered clusters in the axils of the lower leaves and on raised warts on the older twigs; bracts very minute or wanting; pedicels almost capillary, 4-5 mm long. Sepals erect, concave, ciliate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; tube urceolate; lobes erect, ovate to oblong-rotundate, very obtuse or rounded, ciliate at least at the lateral margins. Ovary densely rusty-villous, often somewhat lobed; style conical-cylindric from a broad base, longer than the ovary.