Branchlets slightly puberulous or glabrous. Leaves: petioles 1.2-3.5 cm, glabrous, attached at the margin of the lamina; lamina elliptic, slightly ovate-elliptic or slightly obovate-elliptic, rounded or obtuse at the base, acuminate (or rounded) at the apex, 7-16 by 3-8.5 cm, nervation mostly prominent, especially below. Inflorescences axillary, cauliflorous (or terminal) paniculate or subracemose, slightly puberulous or glabrous, up to 50 cm long with lateral branches up to 9 cm. Male flowers on pedicels 2-4 mm; sepals, the outer ones minute (less than 1 mm long), ciliate, the inner ones larger, elliptic, 3 mm long, glabrous; petals ± broadly elliptic, 1.5-2 mm long; stamens 1 mm long with the connective much swollen on the adaxial side. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male flowers; staminodes rod-like, 0.5 mm; carpels ovoid-ellipsoidal, 1 mm long, style sharply reflexed, about half the length of the carpel. Drupe red, obovoid-ellipsoidal, glabrous, 4.5 by 2.5 cm; embryo 3.5 cm long (mea-surements from material in alcohol).
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