Small slender glabrous tree about 8 m. tall with sparsely branched smooth green stems; bark grey, smooth.. Leaf-blades elliptic-oblong, 4.5–12 cm. long, 1.7–4.5 cm. wide, with an acute acumen 0.6–1.5 cm. long, cuneate at the base, green and shining above, paler beneath, the margin minutely undulate; petiole 0.7–1.3 cm. long; stipules ovate-oblong, 4–5 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. wide, acute or obtuse.. Inflorescences supra-axillary, placed ± 4 cm. above the nodes, 2–4.5 cm. long, 1-several-flowered, dichotomous or not branched; peduncles ± flattened, 1.5–2.7 cm. long; bracts minute, 0.5 mm. long, acute, not congested.. Calyx-tube urceolate, 3 mm. long and wide; lobes deltoid, 0.5–1 mm. long and wide, acute.. Corolla white; tube 6–8 mm. long, 1.7–2.2 mm. wide, dilated at the apex to 3.5 mm. wide, glabrous outside and inside; lobes oblong, 5 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, the acute apex inflexed.. Stamens included in tube in long-styled flowers; short-styled flowers not seen.. Style 5–7 mm. long in long-styled flowers; stigma bifid, lobes oblong, 2 mm. long.. Fruit (immature) urceolate-globose, 6.5 mm. long, 5.5 mm. across, narrowed to the apex and crowned with the 2 mm. long persistent calyx.
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