Treelet 3-8 m; branches long, drooping, branchlets entirely glabrous, younger parts and tips nigrescent when dry, older ones pallid-spotted where parts of the dark epidermis have disappeared. Leaves elliptic or subovate-elliptic, 1-1.5 cm obtusely subcaudate-acuminate at the apex, attenuate into the petiole, somewhat inequilateral, firmly subcoriaceous, shining on both surfaces, dark-brown when dry, younger ones rather densely and distinctly, mature ones obscurely pellucid-punctate, not pellucid-striate, entire, glabrous, but mostly with distinct domatia, 4½-7½ by (2-)2½-3½ cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves 4-5 pairs curved upwards and obscurely joining each other near the leaf-margin, little prominent above, distinctly so beneath, veins and veinlets rather densely reticulated on both surfaces; petiole glabrous 8-10 mm. Fascicles few-flowered, 1(-2) flowers developed at the same time. Bracts minute, 0.5 mm, scarious, pubescent. Pedicels slender, c. 4 mm. Calyx greenish, glabrous outside, papillose-puberulous inside, c. 2 mm, rather deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 8, subequal; filaments filiform, glabrous, 1 mm. Staminodes clavate, 0.5 mm, densely hirsute. Ovary narrow-ovoid, glabrous, l.5 mm. Fruit ellipsoid, red, 1.5-2 by 1 cm; peduncle 4 by 1 mm.
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