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Tree up to 20 m. tall, with pale bark and pendent foliage, the leaves, young shoots and inflorescences dotted with oil-cavities. Leaf-lamina (3–5)6–14 x (1)2–4 cm., usually broadly lanceolate, sometimes ovate, attenuate at the base into a canali-culate petiole to 1·5–2·5 cm. long and at the apex into an acute tip, membranous to chartaceous, dull green and shining above, light green below, ± patent-pubescent on both surfaces when young, becoming almost glabrous when old; midrib grooved above, very prominent beneath, lateral nerves 2–10 on each side, prominent below, reticulation close and very conspicuous, usually with a gland dot in each mesh. Cymes paniculate, the male panicles larger than the female; rhachis of the inflorescence and pedicels usually densely ± patent-pubescent; bracteoles minute, up to 1·5 mm. long, pilose; pedicels c. 2 mm. long. male flower: receptacle c. 2 x 2·5 mm., ± appressed-pilose and gland-dotted outside; calyx-lobes c. 1 x 1 mm., irregularly semi-circular, gland-dotted; petals 2 x 2 mm., subcircular, very slightly unguiculate, reticulately nerved and gland-dotted; stamens (5–6)7–8(9–10), inserted near the margin of the disk; filaments 2·5–3 mm. long; anthers c. 1 mm. long, the connective with 1–3 glands on the back; disk c. 1 mm. broad, usually densely pubescent; pistillode turbinate, c. 1 x 1 mm., ± wrinkled, gland-dotted and ± pilose; style very short, with a capitate stigma. female flower: perianth as in male; staminodes similar to the stamens but very small (c. 1 mm. long); ovary 3·2 x 1·5 mm., ovoid, gland-dotted and sometimes pilose; style up to 2·5 mm. long, glabrous or patent-pilose; stigma capitate, papillose, reddish. Capsule 3–4 x 2–2·5 mm., ellipsoid, loculicidal, 2(3)-valved, gland-dotted, sometimes pubescent. Seeds slightly curved, the outer ones longer and narrower, 2–3 x 0·5 mm., winged at both ends.