Shrubs or small trees, to 5 m tall; branchlets verticillate. Leaves alternate, subverticillate at the apex of the braneblets, obovate, elliptic, apically rounded, rarely acute, basally broadly cuneate, the margins serrulate, 4-8 cm long and 1.5-4.0 cm wide, coriaceous, the primary lateral veins in 6-9 pairs, slightly ele-vated beneath, evident above. Inflorescences axillary or caulinary, fasciculate, bracteoles persistent at the base of the-pedicel, maroon, laciniate; the pedicels about 5 mm long. Flowers with the calyx deeply 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate, semiorbicular, ciliate, 1.2-1.8 mm long; petals broadly ovate or suborbicular, ca. 2.5 mm long, ciliate; disc fleshy, thick, slightly discoid; stamens 5, anthers ovoid-oblong, ca. 0.7 mm long, filaments short; pistil semi-inferior by adnation, the style obscure. Fruit a capsule, orbicular or slightly obovoid, 7 mm in diam-eter; seeds 1-3, 6 mm long and 3 mm wide, incompletely arillate.
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