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A tree, 40–50 ft. high with a clear trunk of 20–25 ft., 5–12 ft. in circumference; head wide-spreading; wood soft, light, grey. Branchlets stout, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate, peltate, rounded-truncate, retuse or cordate at the base, shortly acuminate and subobtuse at the apex, more rarely obtuse or rounded, 4 1/2–12 in. long, 3–9 in. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, digitately 7-nerved at the insertion of the petiole, remaining nerves 3–4 on each side of the midrib; petiole 2 1/2–8 in. long. Corymbs 4–12 long including the peduncle, which is 2 1/2–7 in. long. Flowers whitish. Perianth-segments of male flower about 2 lin. long. Stamens monadelphous for 1/2 lin. below; anthers 3/4 lin. long; free part of filament 3/4 lin. long, pubescent. Fruit ellipsoid, with a broad rounded umbo, 8-ribbed, 1 1/4 in. long; cupule subglobose, about 1 1/2 in. in diam.