A large, spreading tree, about I 5-20 rn in height with a rough grooved bark andglabrous stems and branches; leaves simple, alternate, crowded at the ends of’branches, 12 -40cm long, 4.5-13cm broad, oblong or oblong-lanceohte. acute oracuminate, glabrous, shining, entire, margins undulate, base narrowed, petioles 1.7-4cm long; flowers small, yellowish green, polygamous, monoecious with a pungentodour, arranged in large, many-flowered, pubescent paniclcs longer than leaves,pedicles short, thick and jointed; bracts small, ovate, pubescent, deciduous; calyx 4-or 5-partite, segments 1.5-2mm long, 1-l.5mm broad, ovate, imbricate and pubescent;petals 4 or 5, sometimes more being doubled, free, 2.5mm long, 1.5mm broad, oblong,subacute, reflexed, glabrous with 3 orange-coloured ridges on the inner face; diskfleshy, 5-lobed, alternate with petals; stamens l-5 inserted inside between disk-lobesor on them, one, sometimes 2 fertile, others sterile slender tipped with a small gland,filament subulate, anther purple; ovary superior, sessile, 1-locular, oblique, glabrouswith a pendulous ovule from a basal or lateral funicle, style lateral, stigma simple;fruit a large resinous drupe, 7.5-20cm long with a compressed, fibrous stone inside;seed large, exalbuminous, ovoid-oblong, compressed, testa papery with piano-convex,often unequal and lobed cotyledons.Flowers in October and fruits in April and May.(Sri Lanka)