Small tree or shrub; branchlets angular, glabrous, soon covered with a thin greyish cork. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, shortly gradually obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded (or rarely slightly cordate) at the base, subcoriaceous or firmly chartaceous, brown when dry, somewhat paler beneath, with numerous minute and mostly rather badly visible pellucid dots (no lines), mostly entire or nearly so, the young ones minutely denticulate, (16-)20-28 by (8-)10-14 cm; midrib slightly prominent above, distinctly so beneath; nerves 6-8 ascending pairs excurrent along the leaf-margin, nearly flat above, prominent beneath, veins rather obscure above, prominent-reticulate beneath; petiole stout, 2 mm diam., 5-8 mm long. Flowers several on top of short (3-6 mm) nearly quadrangular axes, these densely covered by numerous, small, pubescent, ovate bracts, 3-6 of these axes fascicled or congested in the leaf-axils. Pedicels 1-2 mm, glabrous. Calyx in all 2.5 mm long, deeply 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments glabrous, alternately 0.6 and 0.3 mm. Staminodes 0.3 mm, barbate. Ovary elongate-ovoid, 2 by 1 mm, hairy, with a short thick style. Fruit 2.5-3 by 1.5 cm, red, many-seeded; peduncle c. 2 mm.
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