Small tree 4-5 m; branchlets slender, terete, glabrous, brownish. Leaves ovate-oblong, I112-2 cm subcaudate-acuminate and acute at the apex, attenuate at the base into the petiole, chartaceous, olivaceous and dull when dry, very densely and rather minutely pellucid-punctate (not-striate), entire, glabrous, (9-) 10-15 by 3-5 cm; midrib little elevated above, manifestly so beneath, nerves (4-)5-6 pairs, curved-ascending and excurrent along the leaf-margin, the superior 2-3 slightly inarched, all obscure above, little prominent beneath, veins ± transverse and distant, somewhat raised beneath, reticulations inconspicuous. Fascicles 4-6-flowered. Flowers white. Bracts minute, 0.5 mm, densely whitish-pubescent, forming small glomerules. Pedicels laxly pilose, ± 1.5 mm. Calyx laxly pilose outside, puberulous inside, the 5 lobes c. 3 mm. Stamens 10; filaments thick-filiform, very laxly pilose, alternately 1.1 and 0.8 mm; anthers subglobose, 0.4 mm diam. Staminodes 0.5 mm, whitish-hirsute. Ovary narrow-ovoid 2.5 mm, rather densely pilose; style very short. Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous or nearly so, red with yellow or greenish streaks, 3-3.5 by 2-3 cm when ripe; peduncle pubescent, 4 mm.
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