Shrub or treelet, 2-4(-6) m; branches glabrous, apparently sometimes a creeper (NGF 14779). Leaves elliptic to lanceolate (sometimes oblan-ceolate or slightly ovate), tapering at both ends, 13-17½ by 5-7.5 cm, thin-papyraceous, above slightly scabrous (as are the stipules), beneath glabrous or rarely sparsely, shortly appressed-pubescent; base cuneate, decurrent, rarely rounded to cordate; margin usually slightly undulate; apex tapering acuminate, slender, blunt to acute; midrib not forked; nerves (4-) 7-8(-9) pairs; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm. Inflorescences 1.5-5 cm long, densely to laxly branched, minutely pubescent. Calyx 1 2/3-2 mm high, outside glabrous, inside at the base usually with colleters, sometimes with hairs. Corolla 4.5-6 mm long, inside usually glabrous or nearly so, lobes 1.5-3 mm long, outside glabrous or rarely slightly pubescent. Anthers hastate, 1.25-2 mm long, cells free for 1/3-1/5, corniculate at apex, not or only slightly bearded at base. Style c. 1-1.5 mm, stigma slenderly club-shaped, 0.75-1 mm. Fruits curved, lanceolate to ovoid, flattened, tapering towards the acute apex, 5-6 by 2-2.25 by 1 cm, red or white.
Primary and secondary forests, from sea-level up to 1100 m. Fl. March, May, Aug., Sept., fr. March, May, July.
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