Slender tree, c. 16 m; tips of the branchlets red-brown when dry, glabrous. Leaves oblong, shortly obtusely acuminate at the apex, attenuate into the petiole and ± decurrent, slightly inequilateral, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, olivaceous above, brownish beneath when dry, dull, glabrous, entire or rarely remotely subdenticulate or undulate, 11-14 by 4-5.5 cm; midrib rather strongly raised on both faces, nerves 8-10(-12) pairs, straight and ± parallel in their lower 2/3, curved upwards and anastomosing, finely raised on both faces, reticulations rather dense, minutely elevated on both faces; petiole 3-5 mm, very thickened and rugose at the base. Racemes ramiflorous, dense-flowered, c. 11 cm, laxly, appressed-rufescent hairy on rhachis and pedicels, very laxly so on the perianth; rhachis 1 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acute, minute. Pedicels 1.5-2 mm, mostly in twos and connate at the base. Perianth cream 5(-6) mm, tube 0.4 mm diam., limb broadly ellipsoid, 1 mm diam. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands broadly oblong, retuse, free or connate at the base only. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, c. 3.5 cm long, smooth, brown when dry, with small pale dots; pericarp rather hard, c. 4 mm.
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