Shrubs or trees 3-12 m. high, with glabrous twigs. Leaves elliptic, rarely oblong or lanceolate, acute or attenuate at the base, shortly and obtusely acuminate at the apex, 5-12 cm. long and 2-6 cm. wide, glabrous but densely glandular-punctate, the midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves distant, in 6-9 pairs, prominulous on both surfaces, the lower ones curved at their base, passing into a marginal nerve at about 1-3 mm. distance from the margin; petiole up to 1 cm. long. Flowers green or white, very small, in numerous axillary abbreviated racemes, the rachis up to 1 cm. long though often much shorter (in the latter case perhaps accrescent during fruiting), the pedicels filiform, glabrous or puberulous. Ovary glabrous. Sepals 4, very short and scarcely 1 mm. long, semi-orbiculate. Petals densely glandular-punctate, about 3 mm. long. Berry globose, dark red to black (or sometimes yellow?), about 8 mm. in diameter, crowned with the very small connivent sepals. Embryo homogeneous.
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A tree. It grows 5 m tall.
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