Shrubs or small trees, to 5 m tall, the branchlets terete, glabrous, ashen gray when dry, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, 6.5-25.0 cm long, 2.0-13.5 cm wide, scarcely or strongly inequilateral, often falcate, acuminate, the acumen straight or curved, to 1.5 cm long, obtuse, cuneate at the base or some-times obtuse or lightly auriculate, the costa subplane to prominulous above, prominulous beneath, the lateral veins 6-9, widely arcuate, the venules 1-3 be-tween adjacent lateral veins, these branching and reticulate, the petioles lacking or to 0.5 cm long, glabrous; stipules triangular, to 4 mm long, rounded toward the apex, glabrous. Inflorescences solitary, terminal, glabrous to puberulent, thrysoid paniculate, to 6 cm long, to 4.5 cm wide; peduncle slender, 1-2 cm long, the primary branches alternate or opposite, to 2 cm long, ascending, the rachis often with 2 pairs of terminal branches, alternate or opposite, flabellate in ap-pearance, the flowers congested, sessile or subsessile. Flowers with the hypan--thium oblong or oblong rotund, often shorter than the calyx cup, the latter cylin-drical or collar shaped, 1.5-2.5 mm long, truncate, stiffly petaloid, glabrous or
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puberulent on the outside; the teeth 5 or absent, triangular, to 0.5 mm long, often with minute, glandular red spots on the margin; corolla white, the tube narrow cylindrical, often falcate, 6-16 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, petaloid, glabrous or puberulent outside, glabrous within, the lobes 4, narrowly oblong, 7-8 mm long, glabrous within, not cucullate; stamens 4, the anthers linear, 4.5-5.7 mm long, acute with a minute apiculum, the filaments short, ca. 1 mm long, attached above the middle of the tube; ovarian disc prominent, to 0.65 mm high, ca. 1 mm wide, the style short or long, included or scarcely exserted, linear, 6-16 mm long, the stigmas 2, linear oblong, 1.5-3.0 mm long, ca. 0.1 mm wide. Fruits ellipsoid, often laterally compressed, 1.2-1.5 cm long, to 0.7 cm wide, glabrous, at first fleshy and spongy, the pulp glistening white, the surface often lenticellate when dry; seed solitary with a hard testa filling the cavity, the calyx persistent, to 1.5 mm long, to 1.2 mm wide.
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