Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-5 m tall. Branches 4-angled to flattened, pale brown, smooth, glabrous. Petiole of developed leaves 2-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery or leathery, lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 5-13 × 1-4 cm, glabrous, base acute or cuneate and often decurrent, margins entire and flat to usually thinly revolute, apex acute to long acuminate; midrib thinly prominulous adaxially; secondary veins 5-7 pairs; stipules caducous, interpetiolar, triangular to narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm, glabrous, acute. Inflorescences glabrous. Pedicels 2-3.5 mm. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion turbinate, 1-1.5 mm; limb ca. 0.8 mm, lobed for 2/3-3/4; lobes 4 or 5, narrowly triangular, sometimes separated by subtruncate sinuses. Corolla white or pale purple, glabrous outside; tube 9-12 mm, fenestrate at base; lobes 4 or 5, ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. Drupes 5-8 mm in diam.; pyrenes 2, subglobose. Fl. Oct, fr. Dec-Feb.
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