Givotia moluccana - White Catamaran Tree

White Catamaran Tree is a moderate-sized tree. Bark is brown, smooth peeling off in circular thick bosses, leaving pits. Leaves are alternate, rounded and heart-shaped, wavy-toothed, base 5-7 nerved, with several veins above them ; blade attaining 10 in. in length and breadth, leathery, hoary above, beneath white with dense adpressed, wool. Leaf-stalk is stout, 4-6 in., woolly, with sometimes a few glands. Flowers are dicecious, in axillary and sub-terminal panicled cymes 4-8 in. long, near the ends of branches. Bracts are narrow-linear. Sepals are 5, imbricate. Petals are 5, longer than sepals, more or less cohering. Male flowers are 4 mm in diameter. Sepals are 5, broad, unequal. Petals are 5, longer, cohering in a globose 5-lobed corolla. Stamens 13-25 crowded on a woolly receptacle, filaments connate below, erect. Female flowers 5 mm in diameter. Ovary is globose, hairy, 2-3-celled. Fruit is a round drupe 2-2.5 cm in diameter. It is a prominent tree on account of its large leaves densely woolly-white beneath.