Shrub or small tree up to 7 m. Branchlets terete, the ultimate internodes rarely 4-angular, sometimes slightly compressed near the node. Leaves chartaceous to coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 4-17.5 by 2-6.75 cm; base cuneate or acute, very rarely obtuse; apex acuminate; margin subcrenate to remotely crenulate; nerves 6-10 pairs; veins densely reticulate, distinctly prominent on both surfaces, sometimes obscure beneath; petiole 3-18 mm, sometimes subsessile. Cymes axillary or extra-axillary, sometimes on a short axillary branch, 2.25-7 cm long (up to 10 cm in fruit), once or twice forked. Peduncle 1.5-3.5 cm. Bracts deltoid or lanceolate. Pedicels c. 3-5 mm. Calyx lobes semi-rounded or subreniform, 0.75-2 by 1.5-3.75 mm. Disk slightly 4-angular, with obscure papillae (B.S. 75176). Petals suborbicular or broad-ovate, c. 4 mm ø. Stamens inserted at the base of the ovary, c. 0.75 mm long. Pistil emerging c. 1 mm from the disk, short-conical. Fruits reddish when fresh, depressed-globose, sometimes slightly wrinkled, c. 1.5 cm ø, 3-4-seeded, slightly furrowed. Seeds broad-oblong, 9-10 by 7-8 mm, dark-brown.
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