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Leaves 8–18 x 3–7.5 cm., elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate-elliptic, abruptly and acutely acuminate at the apex, ± cuneate at the base, thinly coriaceous, ± discolorous, ± glabrous or midrib and nerves sparsely pilose-pubescent beneath; petiole up to 1.5 cm. long; stipules membranous, connate, the sheath c. 1 cm. long, the apices free and ending in long aristate points, later breaking up.
Flowers scented (or not sometimes?), numerous in mostly large lax panicles 7–30 cm. long, the main branches supported by narrow bracts 0.5–5 cm. x 1–7 mm. or larger becoming more leafy and lanceolate at lower axes; pedicels obsolete or very short; bracteoles small.
Shrub or small tree (1.2)3–4.5(9?) m. tall with mostly low branching; the stems slightly pubescent or glabrous when young.
Style and stigmatic lobes exserted c. 2 mm. in long-styled flowers; anthers exserted c. 3 mm. in short-styled flowers.
Corolla white or greenish, ± tomentose outside; tube funnel-shaped, 3–4 mm. long; lobes about 2x1 mm., triangular.
Fruits juicy, violet, purple or blue, c. 9 x 6 mm., ellipsoid, or if with two pyrenes then broader c. 7 x 8 mm.
Pyrene wall pale, thin; seed dark, 4 x 3 mm., broadly ovoid, with obscure irregular sulcation.
Calyx up to 1.7 mm. long, the teeth triangular, c. 1 mm. long.
A shrub or tree 10-20 ft. high with low branches
Flowers whitish in rather lax pyramidal panicles
