Branchlets sparsely puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: petioles 1.2-3 cm, glabrous or subglabrous, attached at c. 1 mm from the base of the lamina; lamina elliptic, subobovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, base rounded to cordate, acuminate at the apex, 8-16 by 4-7 cm, nervation prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous, 4-20 cm, either laxly paniculate with flowers mostly sub-sessile or racemose and few-flowered with pedicels 5-11 mm, sparsely puberulous or glabrous. Male flowers mostly subsessile; sepals ciliate, especially the outermost minute ones, inner larger sepals ellip-tic, 3.5-4.5 mm; petals ± broadly elliptic, 3-3.5 mm; stamens 1 mm, connective produced on adaxial side into a thin vertical wing. Female flowers unknown. Drupe red, oblong-ellipsoidal, glabrous, 4 by 1.5 cm; seed 2.7 cm long (measurements from dried specimen).
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