Dioecious shrubs or small trees to 6 m. tall. Branches rather slender, glabrous or minutely puberulent when very young, inconspicuously lenticellate at maturity. Leaves petiolate, the blade predominantly obovate to obovate-elliptic, acuminate, obtusely cuneate at the base, 4-12 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, firmly membranaceous, glabrous, the petiole 2-15 mm. long. Inflorescences 4-7 cm. long, usually glabrous, rarely minutely puberulent, rather few-flowered, the peduncles slender, the cymules strikingly dichasial, the term.inal flowers sessile, the lateral with slender pedicels as long as the flowers or somewhat longer. Staminate perianths ovoid-urceolate, about 6 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, glabrous. Pistillate perianths tubular, about 3 mm. long and somewhat less than 1 mm. broad, minutely puberulent to glabrous. Anthocarps broadly ellipsoid or ellipsoid-obovoid, 8-10 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, pink or red.
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