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Shrub to 2 m. tall with slender stems, but tree 6–12 m. in South Africa.. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4–10 cm. long, 1.5–5 cm. wide, shortly acuminate at the apex, the actual tip minutely mucronulate, broadly cuneate to almost rounded at the base, glabrous, shiny above, the venation closely reticulate and raised beneath; petiole 2–6 mm. long; stipules 5 mm. long.. Flowers in (3–)9–15-flowered axillary fascicles; pedicels slender, 5–8 mm. long.. Mature flowers and fruits unknown in East African material.. Sepals ovate, ± 2 mm. long, acute, connate at the base.. Petals white, oblong, the lamina 6 mm. long, obtuse, the claw 2 mm. long, appendiculate inside.. Ovary subglobose, 2 mm. long, 3-sulcate.. Style 3 mm. long.. Stamens about 8 mm. long.. Fruit obliquely ovate, 1 cm. long, ± beaked; 1-seeded.
Shrub or small tree, 2-10(12) m high, growing tip long and narrow. Leaves simple, oblong, up to 80 x 40 mm, entire, penninerved, lateral veins translucent below, when held up to light; petioles ± 3.5 mm long; stipules intrapetiolar, usually basally united, spike-or horn-shaped, deciduous. Flowers axillary, in few-flowered fascicles, on stalks up to 10 mm long, green or white, heterostylous. Petals free, nectary appendage present. Flowering time Oct.-Jan. Fruit fleshy, oval, up to 10 mm long, green, turning yellow after falling.
