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Cymes in axil of foliage leaves; peduncle 8–12 mm. long; flowers c. 20–25 in each dichasium, c. 3·5 mm. in diam., in subglobose clusters, bisexual.
Shrub 1·5–4 m. high; branches 4-lined and vinous red when young, becoming terete and ± glaucous with whitish lenticels and eventually whitish.
Drupe orange, drying dark red, 15–20 mm. long, subglobose to obovoid, smooth.
Petals 5, greenish, c. 1 mm. long, elliptic-oblong, with margin paler entire.
Ovary 3-locular, broadly ovoid-conic, c. 2/3-immersed in the disk.
Disk slightly 5-angled, patelliform, finely papillose.
Sepals 5, c. 0·2 mm. long, semicircular, entire.
Stamens 5.
Seed 1.
