Description
Lofty deciduous trees; height 30 m high, bole often buttressed, with large aerial roots and pneumatophores; bark surface purplish-black, smooth; blaze pale chocolate; young parts clothed with golden brown tomentum. Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, estipulate; petiole 16-30 mm long, stout, grooved above, clothed with golden tomentum when young, glabrous on maturity, lamina 30-60 x 10-15 cm, oblong or elliptic-oblong, base round, apex acute or acuminate, glabrous above, reddish tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 20-26 pairs, prominent, parallel, intercostae obscure. Flowers unisexual, urceolate, rusty tomentose; male flowers 5-6 mm long, 10-20 fascicled on woody tubercles in the axils of leaves; female 6-8 mm long, 2 or 3 in axillary fascicles; perianth ovoid-globose, silky tomentose outside, glabrous inside; lobes 3-[4] acute; staminal column much shorter than the perianth, with a short hairy stalk; stalk ovoid-cylindric, bluntly apiculate; anthers about 15, narrow, slightly unequal in length, covering almost the column. Fruit a capsule 8-10 x 6-7.5 cm, oblong-ovoid, covered with tomentum; seed one cylindrical, brown; aril orange red deeply cleft into a few broad divisions with these again much lacerated and covering the apex of the seed.
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