Tree up to 30 m high. Youngest branches dark reddish brown, older ones greyish brown, glabrous. Leaves: petioles 1-3.5 cm long; blade broadly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, obovate or suborbicular, 2-13 by 1-7.5 cm, margin entire or somewhat wavy, base obliquely truncate to rounded, apex acute, acuminate or obtuse, nerves 4-6(-7) on each side of midrib, upper side glabrous or with a very few hairs, lower side glabrous. Inflorescence terminal on short, lateral branches, subcorymbose, branchlets of last order at very acute angles, glabrous or with very few hairs; pedicels 1-3 cm long. Calyx obconical to cup-shaped, sepals 2-3, mostly 2.5 mm long and wide, loosely strigillose, lobes free for 2/3, narrowly triangular with revolute margins. Corolla funnel-shaped, 9-10 mm long, 7-8 mm in diam., tube cylindrical-campanulate, lobes explanate, 3 mm long, rounded at apex. Stamens shortly exserted (?). Pistil: style 12-13 mm long, branches suberect, 2 mm long, stigmata indistinct. Fruit ellipsoidal, 10 mm long, 7-8 mm in diam. when compressed.
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Tree to 30 m high, deciduous; bark flaky, smooth. Leaves: lamina broadly elliptic to obovate, 4–11 cm long, 3.5–7.5 cm wide, obtuse at base, entire margin, acuminate at apex, glabrous; petiole 1–2 cm long. Inflorescence of many-flowered di-or trichotomously branched corymbs or panicles, ebracteate; peduncle 2–4 cm long. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, glabrous; lobes ciliate. Corolla white to pink; tube c. 4–5 mm long, widening apically, shortly appressed-pubescent outside; lobes c. 2 mm long. Stamens ± unequal, inserted in apical half of tube; filaments c. 4–5 mm long, glabrous. Style 6–7 mm long including lobes; lobes 2–3 mm long. Drupe c. 3–7 mm diam., apparently breaking into 4 single-seeded pyrenes, yellow (H.N. Ridley, Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 45: 231, 1906).
A dominant part of the plateau forest vegetation which occurs in shallow soil (B.A. Mitchell, Comm. For. Rev. 53: 27, 1974).
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