Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Young branchlets green, slightly flat, ridged. Leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate, or rarely obovate-elliptic, 11-21 × 3-6(-10) cm, pale green, abaxially grayish yellow when dry, oil glands pellucid and conspicuous, base cuneate, margin sinuate. Inflorescences axillary, 5 mm or less, with 3 to several flowers in a fasciclelike raceme. Flowers 4-merous. Petals white, 3-5 mm. Stamens 8, monadelphous or filaments coherent in phalanges. Style ± as long as ovary; stigma slightly clavate. Fruit red, ovoid, ellipsoid, or rarely globose, 1.3-1.8 × 0.7-1(-1.5) cm, smooth, with large oil glands, 1-3-seeded; exocarp ca. 0.5 mm thick. Seeds narrowly ovoid, 1-1.5 cm; embryo solitary. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Nov-Jan.
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