Shrubs or small trees, 3-11 m high, the branches stout, terete, rimose, the buds and tips lepidote, densely leafy, with short internodes. Leaves small, the petioles stout and broad, 2-6 mm long, glabrous, often marginate to the base; leaf blades coriaceous, oblong-obovate, sometimes broadly so, or oblanceolate, 4-6(-10) cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, obtuse or rounded apically, sometimes obtusely subacuminate, broadly obtuse to cuneate basally, entire, glabrous, green and dull above, beneath paler, often brownish, densely and minutely brown-punctate, the costa stout, prominent, the lateral nerves slender, prominent, ascending, connected by the irregular lax reticulation of the ultimate nerves. Inflorescences terminal, usually much exceeding the leaves, densely many-flowered, tripinnately paniculate, 8 cm long and wide or smaller, the rachis glabrous, angulate. Flowers 5-merous, large, chiefly subumbellate; bracts caducous; pedicels 4-12 mm long; sepals ovate-orbicular, 2-2.5 mm long, connate below, rounded apically, dextrorsely convolute, glabrous, entire, densely punctate with large orange glands; corolla 7-8 mm long, the petals oblong, obtuse, nearly free, symmetric, glabrous, minutely orange-punctate; stamens to 7 mm long, equaling the corolla, the filaments slender, to 3 mm long, the anthers thick, lanceolate-oblong, 3-4 mm long, acute, concolorous; ovary ovoid, smooth, glabrous, the ovules numerous, pluriseriate, the style slender, 6.5 mm long. Fruit globose, 6-9 mm in diameter when mature, black-purple.
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