Shrub or small tree, 1-5 m; branchlets terete, smooth, dark red-brown when dry, youngest parts laxly very fine appressed-hairy, glabrescent. Leaves oblong-elliptic or subobovate-oblong, broadly attenuate at the apex and blunt, sometimes nearly rounded, cuneate and slightly decurrent into the petiole, firmly subcoriaceous, brown-olivaceous and glossy above when dry, dull and paler brown beneath, entire or distantly and rather coarsely toothed in the upper half, 10-15 by 4-6(-8) cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves (4-)5 pairs curved-ascending and ± distinctly anastomosing, elevated both above and beneath, reticulations rather dense, well visibly raised on both faces; petiole 1(-1.5) cm. Racemes axillary or sometimes ramiflorous, rather dense, 14-20 cm; rhachis subterete, 1.5 mm diam., very laxly covered with minute appressed rufescent hairs as are the pedicels. Bracts ovate-acuminate or deltoid, acute, 0.5 mm. Pedicels mostly in pairs, free or connate at the very base, 2-3 mm. Perianth white or cream, glabrous, (16-)17-19 mm, tube slender, 0.4-0.5 mm diam., limb ellipsoid, 1-1.2 mm diam. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands connate in the lower half, forming a crenate cup. Ovary glabrous. Fruit subglobose, very shortly apiculate, somewhat contracted at the base, smooth, c. 3.5 cm diam., pericarp leathery, dry, rather hard, 2-3 mm; pedicel 4 by 3 mm.
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