Slender trees, the branchlets slender, terete. Leaves oblong or obovate, 7-14 cm. long, 3-7 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, glabrous, entire, the costa raised, the primary lateral veins about 6 per side; petiole 1-5 cm. long. Inflorescence a simple umbel, terminal on a short branchlet, the floriferous peduncle 3-6 cm. long, bracteate at the base and inconspicuously bracteate slightly above the base; pedicels 25-35 mm. long, bracteolate at the base. Flowers 15 (-30 ?) per umbel; young fruit ovoid, about 5 mm. in diameter, surmounted by the short persistent calyx-limb and short stylar column, the styles 5, sharply reflexed, free distally.
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