Shrubs to small trees, 3-6 m tall; branches flattened to subterete, glabrous. Petiole 3-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying thinly leathery, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 4-10 × 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base acute to cuneate, margins generally flat, apex acuminate with tip 10-20 mm; secondary veins 7-10 pairs, without domatia or with glabrous foveolate domatia; stipules broadly triangular, 2-3.5 mm, obtuse to acute and sometimes shortly mucronate. Inflorescences with cymes 1 or 2 per axil, each branched to subcapitate or fasciculate, 2-4-flowered, subsessile to pedunculate with peduncles to 2.5 mm; bracts cupuliform, 1-2 mm; pedicels to 6 mm. Flower buds resinous. Calyx glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, 1-1.5 mm; limb reduced, truncate. Corolla white or pale pink, funnelform, outside glabrous to puberulent; tube 6-8 mm; lobes 6-8(or 9), spatulate, 12-15 mm, obtuse. Drupe black or bluish black, subglobose to ovoid, 12-13 × 8-10 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Dec.
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An evergreen shrub. It can grow 6 m high. The young leaf shoots are pink. The leaves are 10-15 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They are bright green and shiny but are paler underneath. The flowers are large and white. The fruit are fleshy and bluish-black. They are oval and 12-13 mm long by 8-10 mm wide.
A glabrous shrub or small tree, to 10 ft. high.
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