Cronq., Lloydia 9:265.1946 Dioecious (?) tree, to 25 (35) m tall, to 25 cm dbh; outer bark thin, brown, fissured vertically, often flaking off to expose areas of inner bark; inner bark white to tan, lighter than the wood; wood tan, hard; sap milky, sometimes with a strong, foul, pungent odor; stems appressed-pubescent to glabrate in age. Petioles appressed-pubescent, 1-2.5 cm long; blades oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, obtuse to cuneate at base, 9-16 cm long, 2-4.5 (5.5) cm wide, glabrous in age except for appressed trichomes at base of midrib below; major lateral veins usually 5-7 on each side, the secondary veins irregularly anastomosing (only faintly prominulous when dried). Flower clusters dense, often at leafless nodes; pedicels 2-5 mm long; flowers greenish-white; pedicels and calyces densely pubescent, the trichomes short, appressed, T-shaped, less conspicuous on calyx; sepals 4(5), ovate to obovate, ca 2.7 mm long, thin, rounded at apex, ciliate, the inner pair thinner, its margins +/- scarious; corolla tubular, 2.5-4 mm long, lobed, the lobes 4, large, alternating with 4 smaller staminodial lobes, all lobes ciliate; stamens 4, mounted on basal third of corolla tube, alternating with corolla lobes, sometimes directed inward and perpendicular to the corolla, the apices forming a cross; filaments ca twice as long as anthers, narrowed below anthers; anthers narrowly deltoid, to 1.7 mm long, opposite corolla lobes and shorter than rim; ovary 4-locular, ovoid, very densely hirsute, the trichomes white, ascending, ca twice as long as ovary; style simple, ca twice as long as ovary; stigma simple, held at about the level of apex of corolla tube. Fruits obovoid, ellipsoid or obliquely ellipsoid, to 3.5 cm long and 3 cm diam, yellow, densely velutinous and with longer, stalked, T-shaped trichomes when juvenile, yellow and often glabrate at maturity; seeds 1-4, ellipsoid, ca 1.5 cm long. Croat 6116, 10293.