Shrub or small tree, 2-5(-10) m; branchlets slender, somewhat angular, rather densely pilose with spreading, ferrugineous, soft hairs. Leaves oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, abruptly (1-2 cm) acutely acuminate at the apex, broadly cuneate to subtruncate or rounded at the base, very rarely sub-cordate, mostly thinly chartaceous, distinctly pellucid-punctate and-lineate, brownish-olivaceous when dry, dull or slightly shining above, somewhat inequilateral, entire, but when younger with rather numerous very minute glandlike teeth, glabrous on the upper surface except the midrib and nerves, the undersurface laxly beset with ± spreading short ferrugineous hairs, more densely so on the midrib and nerves, (6-)7-20 by (3-)4½-7(-8½) cm; midrib very little raised above, distinctly prominent beneath, nerves (7-)8-10 pairs, ascending, not rarely slightly impressed above, little prominent beneath, veins inconspicuous above, transverse and more elevated beneath, not reticulate; petiole ± tawny, 3-6 mm. Stipules pubescent. Flowers whitish or greenish, but purple at the base when fresh, in many-flowered fascicles, 4-5 flowers developed only at the same time. Calyx in all 2.5-3 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Stamens (8-) 10; filaments glabrous, alternately 0.8 and 0.6 mm. Staminodes 0.5 mm, pilose. Ovary ovoid, rather densely pubescent. Fruit oblong-elliptic, 1.75-2.5(-3.5) by 1-1.5(-2) cm, sessile or very shortly (up to 2 mm) peduncled, orange or orange-yellow when fresh, laxly shortly pilose. Seeds white, embedded in a red pulp.
In rain-forest on hilly ground or crests of ridges, 650-1600 m, fl. Oct.-Febr., fr.--02.
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