Slender tree or shrub, 5-6 m, recumbent; young twigs copper-red, glabrous, dull or shining, specially towards the tips covered with varnish. Leaves ± tapering into an elongate obtuse acumen, sometimes nearly caudate, rounded at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, shining on both sides; midrib prominent, the two lower pairs of the nerves rising from or nearly from the base, but curved-ascend-ing as are the superior ones and equally prominent on both sides. Flowers in axillary, very short, few-flowered racemes, mostly reduced to 2-3-flowered fascicles on tubercled nodes. Pedicels laxly pilose, 4-5 mm. Sepals 4(-5) ovate, obtuse, laxly pilose outside, rather densely so inside, 2 mm. ♂ Flowers cream. Stamens c. 15; filaments glabrous 2 mm. Disk-lobes 8, free, fleshy, truncate. ♀ Flowers not seen; developed ovary surrounded at the base by 4 sepals similar to those of the male flowers, globose, with 4(-5), central, 1 mm long styles, radiating and reflexed from the apex. Fruit subglobose, 6-8 mm diam., red, with 6-8 flat seeds, each 4 mm diam.
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