Tree to 10 m. tall, usually more or less furfuraceous, especially about the inflorescence; petioles 2-4 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic, 10-15 cm. long, half to two-thirds as wide, obtuse or apiculate, at base obtuse or rounded, 5-nerved or barely 5-pli-nerved, glabrous on both sides or minutely stellate beneath; panicle widely branched, few-flowered; buds globose, 10-15 mm. long; hypanthium at anthesis about 7 mm. long, usually verrucose; flowers white, usually 7-merous; anthers oval, about half as wide as long.
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