Trees with slender glabrous twigs. Leaves elliptical-oblong to ovate-oblong, acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, 6-7 cm. long and 2.5-3.5 cm. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, the midrib impressed above, prominulous beneath, the lateral nerves about 12 on each side, prominulous on both surfaces; petiole canaliculate, up to 8 mm. long. Flowers mostly cauliflorous; pedicels robust, up to 1 cm. long. Flower buds pear-shaped, the sepals enclosing the petals. Sepals greenish, rounded, reflexed at anthesis, thick, unequal, the 2 inner up to 5 mm. long, the 2 outer nearly 3 mm. long. Petals white, about 7 mm. long. Ovary obconoid, glabrous or with a few hairs, 2-celled, about 3 mm. high, the cells about 12-ovulate. Berry said to be oblong or globose, deep crimson, about 2.0-2.5 cm. in diameter.
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