Tree or shrub to 12 m tall, much branched, the twigs slender, stiff, ascending, drying yellowish or reddish brown but soon greyish, scruffy. Leaves elliptical, sometimes broadly so, small, to 6 cm long, 4.5 cm wide, stiffly coriaceous, plane but the margins minutely revolute, the costa conspicuous, subplane or elevated above, rounded to sharply raised beneath, evanescent distally, drying reddish brown, the lateral ribs somewhat obscure and appearing very numerous, actually 34-36 per cm, usually more distinct above, petiole 5-10 mm long, drying ca. 2 mm thick, with a narrow groove above. Inflorescence not seen. Fruits globose or slightly ellipsoidal, 20-25 mm long, conspicuously apiculate, the apicule 2-4 mm long, longer than broad, the basal stipe resembling the apicule, the surface
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drying glaucous, reddish brown, wrinkled; fruiting pedicels 10-12 mm long, re-sembling the twigs; interior wall of the fruit papery, thin, dark brown, the en-docarp stony; seeds globose, brown, occupying 4/S of the locule.
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