Tree up to 24 m by c. 30 cm; branchlets ferrugineous-tomentose at the tips, tardily glabrescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate towards the base and +-distinctly decurrent along the petiole, subsessile, the very young ones ferrugineous-tomentose on both faces, quickly glabrescent, mature ones subcoriaceous and glabrous, midrib and petiole excepted, yellowish-green and shining above when dry, dull beneath, entire, 8-15 by 2.5-4 cm; midrib distinctly raised beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs curved-ascending, ± manifestly inarched along the edge, pale and nearly flat above, prominent beneath, reticulations rather dense and raised on both faces; petiole stout, averagely 2-3 mm, in less decurrent leaves slightly longer. Racemes in the uppermost axils, solitary, or rarely in twos, rather dense-flowered, rufous-ferrugineous-tomentose, 8-15 cm; rhachis 1.5-2 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acuminate, c. 1.2 mm, subpersistent as are the bracteoles. Pedicels mostly in twos, free or connate up to the middle, rather thick, 3-4 mm in anthesis, somewhat accrescent in fruit. Perianth dilutely green, c. 8 mm, swollen both at the apex and the base, tube 1 mm diam. in the middle. Anthers c. 1.5 mm. Disk glands very short, truncate, free. Ovary rufous-villous; style slender, glabrous. Fruit ± oblique, ovoid-ellipsoid, very shortly contracted at the base, dirty green, finally blackish when fresh, black when dry, minutely verruculose, glabrous, 1.5-1.8 by 1.2-1.5 cm, pericarp ± 3/5 mm.
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