Treelet 1.5 m; branchlets rather densely yellowish-pilose, soon glabrescent and covered with grey cork. Leaves obtusely acuminate and somewhat falcate at the apex, membranous, brown and dull when dry, distinctly pellucid-punctate and-lineate, pubescent at and near the petiole, the midrib and the nerves beneath, glabrous elsewhere, margin obtusely crenate-serrate, the teeth 1 mm high and 3-6 mm distant, 9-15 by 4½-5½ cm; midrib prominent on both sides, nerves 6-8 pairs, curved-ascending and excurrent along the leaf-margin, somewhat impressed above, prominent beneath, veins inconspicuous; petiole c. 2 mm or shorter in the uppermost leaves. Stipules 4-6 by 6-8 mm. Flowers 1-2 per axil, nearly sessile, seen only in a not yet full developed state. Bracts several, membranous, glabrous, 1 mm. Calyx tubular, in all it 3 mm long, somewhat fleshy, fulvous-sericeous outside, glabrous inside; lobes oblong, c. 1 mm. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous, alternately 0.6 and 0.3 mm, dilatate in the middle. Staminodes rudimentary, pilose. Ovary columnar, glabrous, c. 3 by 1 mm. Fruit fleshy, red, 1.5-2 by 1 cm; peduncle 2 mm.
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