Small tree or shrub; branchlets angular, nigrescent, minutely pubescent at the tips, glabrous elsewhere, older parts grey-corticate. Leaves subovate-elliptic-oblong, gradually obtusely acuminate at the apex, very broadly cuneate to truncate at the base, but protracted into the petiole at the very base, subcoriaceous, rather densely pellucid-punctate and-striate, glabrous except the finely pubescent midrib of the immature leaves, somewhat shining on both surfaces, dark-brown when dry, entire or minutely sinuate-denticulate, 15-20 by 6-9 cm; midrib stout beneath, nerves 10-11 pairs, little curved, straight-ascending towards the leaf-margin and ± parallel to each other, veins transverse, rather obscure above, more conspicuous beneath, reticulations visible underneath only; petiole stoutish, laxly pubescent, 4-7 mm. Fascicles 3-4-flowered. Bracts rather few, ovate, pubescent, 1 mm. Pedicels blackish when dry as is the calyx, firm, glabrous, 2-3 mm. Calyx subcoriaceous, glabrous outside, puberulous inside, 5 mm, rather deeply 5-lobed, the lobes oblong subacute. Stamens 10; filaments filiform, glabrous, alternately 2 and 1.5 mm; anthers subglobose, 0.4 mm diam. Staminodes triangular-oblong, applanate, densely whitish-hirsute, 1 mm. Ovary ovoid, densely whitish-hairy as is the receptacle, 2 mm, stigma sessile. Fruit ellipsoid, laxly pubescent to glabrescent, red, c. 1.8 by 1.5 cm; peduncle 3 mm.
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