Small or medium-sized evergreen tree up to 20 m. tall, but sometimes flowering as a shrub 1–5 m. tall. Leaf-lamina up to 12 x 5 cm., lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, apex acutely subacuminate, base rounded, slightly asymmetric, glabrous on both surfaces except for a few strigulose hairs, venation raised and closely reticulate on upper surface; petiole 0·3–0·4 cm. long; stipules up to 0·5 cm. long, subulate, persistent. Inflorescence many-flowered, somewhat congested, a terminal or axillary thyrse; lateral branches 1–3-flowered and also bearing several sterile bracts; bracts c. 0·3 cm. long, margin with many sessile to long-stipitate glands; pedicels 0·1–0·15 cm. long. Receptacle-tube c. 0·8 cm. long, straight, narrowly cylindric, ending in a free annular disk at the throat, densely tomentellous outside, glabrous in lower 1/2 inside. Sepals 0·6–0·7 x 0·35 cm., spreading, usually with a few shortly stipitate glands on the recurved margins, both surfaces tomentellous, the inner much paler than the outer. Petals 0·3–0·4 cm. long, oblong-elliptic, slightly asymmetric, very shortly unguiculate. Stamens c. 9; filaments c. 1·0 cm. long, inserted on abaxial surface of the disk; Staminodes c. 3, subulate, 0·05 cm. long. Style 1·0 cm. long, hirsute for greater part of length. Drupe up to 2·8 x 1·7 cm., ellipsoid or obovoid, suddenly contracted at the base, sparsely pubescent.