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A tree 30–60 ft. high; branchlets densely clothed with short hairs, grey when young, brown in age. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. wide, acute, cuneately narrowed to the base, subcoriaceous, slightly grey-silky when young, glabrous on both surfaces when mature; lateral veins erecto-patent, 10–12 on each side of the midrib, prominent on both surfaces, connected by loops near the margin. Spikes 5–6 in. long; rhachis and perianth coated with adpressed drab tomentum; bracts minute, ovate, acute, from a very wide base. Perianth 6 lin. long; lobes of the lower lip oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long. Hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, deltoid, acute. Anthers bluntly mucronate, cells thickened at the base on the inner side. Ovary densely clothed with long erect hairs; style finally 6 lin. long.