Shrub or small tree; young branches pubescent at the tips, soon glabrescent and covered with greyish cork, lenticels orbicular-elliptic, distinct, rather numerous. Leaves oblong to oblong-elliptic, abruptly (2 cm) obtusely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to obtuse at the base, minutely denticulate in the upper half, entire towards the base, chartaceous, olivaceous and dull above, brownish and somewhat shining beneath when dry, laxly rather obscurely pellucid-punctate and-striate, glabrous above, beset with very short appressed hairs on the undersurface specially on midrib and nerves, glabrescent, 25-30 by 10-12 cm; midrib nearly flat above, very prominent beneath, nerves 8-9 pairs, ± suberect, flat, prominent beneath, veins +-transverse and veinlets obscure above, both densely reticulated and ± manifestly raised beneath; petiole stout (c. 3 mm diam.), ± 8 mm long, initially pubescent, soon corticated. Flowers apparently few per fascicle. Pedicel very short. Calyx (below the fruit) glabrous or nearly so, 4 mm, manifestly pellucid-punctate, deeply 5-lobed. Fruit nearly ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 by 1.2 cm, reddish to yellowish when fresh, glabrous; peduncle 2 mm. Seeds 4-5 mm long; aril fimbriate.
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