Shrub 1½ m; branchlets entirely glabrous, striate, soon covered with a thin, grey cork. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous, dark green-brownish when dry, shining on both sides, subcoriaceous, entire, laxly pellucid-striate, not or obscurely pellucid-punctate, 5-10 by 2½-4½ cm; midrib distinctly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 4-5(-6) pairs, curved-ascending, distinctly anastomosing near the leaf-margin, little prominent above, more so beneath, veins and veinlets equally and ± densely reticulate-prominent on both faces; petiole rather slender, blackish, glabrous, c. 5 mm. Flower 1-2 per fascicle, sub-sessile, very small, green. Bracts ovate, subacuminate, 1.5 mm, membranous, glabrous. Calyx 2.5 mm, 4 or mostly 5-lobed, the lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous on both sides. Stamens (6-)8, equal; filaments thick-filiform, subulate towards the apex, glabrous, c. 0.9 mm; anthers minute. Staminodes oblong, pilose specially at the apex, 0.6 mm. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Fruit, apparently not quite mature, 1.5 by 1 cm, nearly sessile, probably yellow, with 3-4 rather big red seeds.
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