Monoecious shrub or small tree 3-5 m tall, to 5 cm d.b.h.; twigs glabrous, somewhat tetragonal, the angles ridged and prominent. Leaves elliptic to nar-rowly elliptic-ovate, more or less acuminate, cuneate to rounded at the base, entire, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, glabrous, 5-12 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, sub-3-veined from the base with the outer 2 nerves forming submarginal veins, the venation inconspicuous above, prominulous beneath, the petiole margined, 2-5 mm long. Inflorescence short, 1-2 cm long axillary, cymose-racemose with a single terminal female flower and several lateral male flowers; bracts triangular, 1-2 mm long, ciliate; pedicels of male flowers 2-4 mm long, the female flowers sessile. Flowers white, fragrant; calyx of male flowers petaloid, the 4 sepals obovate, 2-3 mm long, papillose-ciliate, the stamens 4, opposite the sepals, the filaments thick, 2-3 mm long, the terminal anther 0.5-1 mm long; female flower
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with 6 ciliolate and somewhat puberulous biseriate sepals ca. 1.5 mm long, the ovary ca. 3 mm long with 3 styles 3-4 mm long. Capsule 3-valved and 3-horned from the persistent styles, 7-8 mm long not including the 5-7 mm long styles, loculicidally dehiscing so each valve 2-horned; seeds black, shiny, ca. 5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide.
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