A medium sized tree, c. 8-10 m tall. Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, 2-6 cm broad, oblique, acuminate, somewhat scabrous above and velvety below; petiole 0.5-2 cm long. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, many-flowered, thyrsiform cyme. Flowers small, c. 8 mm across, yellow; pedicel 3-6 mm long. Sepals 3-5, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, basally connate, 2-3 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, tomentose outside, nearly glabrous within, reflexed. Petals obovate, c. 3 mm long, c. 2 mm broad, appendage 3-4 mm long, puberulous out-side. Stamens 2-2.5 mm long, concealed in the cucullate petals, anthers orange or reddish. Ovary c. 1 mm long. Capsule globose or oblong-ellipsoid, 1-2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, black, tuberculate.