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Shrub or small tree to c. 5 m high, evergreen, or semi-deciduous in cold districts. Shoots densely hairy. Petioles to 5 mm long, hairy. Lamina 2.5-6-(7) × 1.25-2.5-(3.5) cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, dull green above, hairy on midrib beneath and usually above in lower part, ciliolate when young; base broad-cuneate; apex usually obtuse. Panicles to c. 10 cm long, rather loose; branches densely hairy, somewhat flattened, ± angular; pedicels short. Bracts and bracteoles linear to oblong, caducous. Fls very fragrant. Calyx 1-2 mm long, glabrous or nearly so; lobes very shallow. Corolla white; tube 1.5-2 mm long, slightly > calyx; lobes c. 3-(3.5) mm long, elliptic-ovate, spreading, subacute. Stamens = or slightly < corolla lobes; anthers pinkish mauve or purple. Style exserted. Fr. 4-6 mm diam., globose or subglobose, dull black or purplish black. Seed 3-4 mm long, oblong, shallowly grooved.
Shrubs or small trees 2-4(-7) m, deciduous. Branchlets terete, villous, pubescent, pilose, puberulent, to glabrescent. Petiole 2-8 mm; leaf blade ovate, oblong, elliptic to lanceolate, or suborbicular, 2-7(-13) × 1-3(-5.5) cm, densely villous to sparsely pubescent or glabrous, papery to somewhat leathery, base cuneate to subrounded, apex acute to acuminate, sometimes obtuse and retuse; primary veins 4-6(or 7) on each side of midrib, impressed or plane adaxially, somewhat raised abaxially. Panicles terminal or axillary, 4-11 × 3-8 cm, with or without leaf at base. Pedicel 1-5 mm. Calyx 1-1.5 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Corolla 3.5-5.5 mm; tube slightly shorter than lobes. Stamens reaching apex of corolla lobes or exceeding that; anthers ca. 1 mm. Fruit subglobose, 5-8 mm in diam.
Deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub, 3-6 m high; shoots densely downy. Leaves mid-to dark green, sometimes variegated to yellow, ovate-elliptic, up to 80 mm long, midrib hairy on lower surface. Inflorescences: terminal panicles up to 100 mm long, heavily scented. Flowers white, 3-5 mm long, stalked. Flowering time Oct.-Feb. Fruit shiny, black berries.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. The small branches are hairy. The leaves are opposite and simple. They are oval. The flowers are in spike like groups at the ends of branches. The flowers are white and have a scent. The fruit is fleshy and black. It is oval.
Shrub or small tree, 3.5-6.0 m high. Young branches tomentellous. Leaves oval, 25-70 mm long, hairy on midvein. Flowers in loose, upright panicles; white.
