11.5 cm wide, entire or subentire to sharply serrate, except basally, apically acute or acuminate and often narrowed to an elongate acumen, basally acute or acu-minate, often somewhat narrowed into the petiole, dark-green above, much lighter beneath, more or less stellate-furfuraceous above, especially along the midrib and larger veins, and more or less glabrescent, densely stellate-tomentose and glandu-lar-punctate or furfuraceous-floccose beneath; petioles stout, 6-28 mm long, very densely floccose-tomentose. Inflorescences solitary, opposite, cymes chiefly in the uppermost axils, often laxly corymbose and greatly branched, usually long-pedunculate, 2.5-20 cm long and 3-17 cm wide, usually many-flowered, frequently densely so, sometimes bracteate, bracteolate; peduncles stout, 1.5-6.5 cm long, densely floccose or furfuraceous with flavescent or canescent tomentum; pedicels slender, 1-3 mm long, densely canescent-tomentose; bracts (if present) sub-foliaceous, oblong, to 3.5 cm long and 1 cm wide, stellate-tomentose; bractlets linear, often numerous, 5-10 mm long, densely canescent-tomentose; prophylls setaceous. Flowers slightly fragrant, calyx small and thin-textured, 1.1-1.5 mm long and wide, often 4-angled and 4-costate, granulose-pulverulent, truncate or subtruncate, often very slightly 4-dentate or irregularly erose; corolla white or greenish-white, infundibular, the tube 1.6-2.6 mm long, the limb 4-parted, the lobes short, ovate-lingulate, 0.8-0.9 mm long and 0.9-1 mm wide, apically bluntly obtuse, sometimes slightly crimped or bilobed; stamens 4, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, long-exserted, the filaments 3.1-7.6 mm long, the anthers oblong; pistil absent or long-exserted, the style 4.2-7 mm long, ampliate into the stigma, the stigma depressed-capitate, ca. 0.9 mm wide; ovary depressed-globose, ca. 0.6 mm long and wide, 4-sulcate, glabrous. Fruit dark-purple or almost black, sub-globose, 3-4.5 mm long and wide, glabrous, drying wrinkled, 4-seeded, whitish-lavender to yellow or red when immature; fruiting-calyx small, shallowly patel-liform, 2-3 mm wide, glabrate, truncate and entire.
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Shrub or tree to 10 m tall; trunk to 12 cm in diameter; branches usually stout, obtusely tetragonal, densely stellate floccose-tomentose above, more or less gla-brescent, with numerous elongated lenticels; branchlets and twigs from stout to slender, obtusely tetragonal, flattened at the nodes, usually densely floccose-tomentose with whitish or yellowish tomentum, later becoming less so. Leaves membranous, ovate-oblong or very rarely subobovate, 6.5-28.5 cm long and 2.5-
A shrub or small tree. It grows 2 m high. The leaves are large and oblong and taper to the tip. They have a dense covering underneath. The flowers are 2.5 cm long. They are in groups in the axils of leaves. The fruit are black and fleshy with a stone inside. They are 5 cm across.
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