Tree, 5-15(-20) m; tips of the branchlets brownish and glabrous. Leaves obovate-elliptic or more rarely obovate, shortly ± abruptly obtusely acuminate at the apex, attenuate and +-decurrent into the petiole, subcoriaceous, greyish-brownish and somewhat shining above when dry, brownish and rather dull beneath, very young ones laxly appressed-pilose, glabrescent, mature ones glabrous, entire, (4-)5-8 by (2-)2.5-3.5 cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves 4-5(-6) pairs, rather straight in their lower part, curved upwards and rather strongly anastomosing, slightly or not raised above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulations dense, finely prominent on both faces; petiole 0.5-1(-1.5) cm, at least partly winged by the decurrent blade. Racemes axillary, ± dense-flowered, slender, 6-10 cm; rhachis terete, dark brown when dry, 1-1.2 mm diam., very laxly appressed rusty-pilose or glabrous. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, nearly subulate, c. 0.5 mm, subpersistent. Pedicels slender, mostly in twos, connate at the base, glabrous, 4-5 mm. Perianth white, fragrant, c. 12 mm, glabrous, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb ellipsoid, 2 by 1.5 mm. Anthers c. 2 mm. Disk glands ovate, free, ± close. Ovary glabrous. Fruit obovoid, slightly attenuate at the very base, c. 5 by 4-4.5 cm, pericarp coriaceous, 4 mm; pedicel 1 by 0.3-0.4 cm.
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