Shrub or tree 3-8 m tall; stems weakly and sparsely appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Leaves opposite, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, bluntly acuminate to rarely acute or rounded at the apex, broadly acute to attenuate at the base, 5.5-15.0 cm long, 2.8-8.0 cm wide, lustrous and glabrous above, sparse-ly and inconspicuously pubescent beneath, the pubescence denser on the veins and near the margin, usually with 1 or more pairs of conspicuous plate-shaped, somewhat sunken glands near the base along the midrib; primary lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the secondary veins moderately obscure; petioles 4-8 mm long, glabrous to sparsely appressed-pubescent; stipules minute, sparsely pubescent, adhering to the petioles. Pseudoracemes 10-24-flowered, terminal, on short bifoliate branches, 4-8 cm long, usually shorter than the subtending leaves, the rachises densely appressed-pubescent; bracts narrowly triangular, pubescent, 1.5-2.0 mm long; bracteoles ovate-triangular, 1 of them with a large gland. Flowers yellow, 14-16 mm in diam.; petals glabrous, orbicular, subcordate, the margin denticulate and glandular, 5-7 mm in diam., the claw thick, 2 mm long; stamens glabrous, mostly united at the base, the anthers oblong, with the connective reddish, thick-ened, subglobose; ovary trilocular, glabrous, the styles 3, thick, free, the apex truncate and dilated, subdiscoid; fruiting calyces 3.5-5.0 mm long, obtuse to rounded at the apex, glabrous, ciliate, thin along the margin, the glands 8, irreg-ularly oblong, 2 of them formed by the fusion of 2 glands, often somewhat beaked and turned outward. Fruits 2-or 3-locular, ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.1-2.3 cm long, glabrous, red.
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