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Leaves petiolate, dark bluish-green when dried; lamina 5·5–10·6 × 2·3–3·8 (4·3) cm., obovate or more rarely oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, obtuse to rounded at the apex, with margin densely crenulate-serrulate, cuneate or rarely truncate at the base, subcoriaceous with ± widely spreading lateral nerves and densely reticulate tertiary venation more prominent above than below, the main and subsidiary laterals almost equally prominent; petiole 1–2 mm. long, stout, grooved above.
Small tree 3·5–6 m. high, with bark light brown, rather rough; branches striate to shallowly ribbed, yellow-brown with raised lenticels at first, later with epidermis exfoliating in thin papery strips.
Flowers (1) 3–7, in a condensed raceme with rhachis up to 5 mm. long or subumbellate, cowslip-scented; pedicels 1·3–2·1 (2·4) cm. long in fruit, articulated within 1 mm. of the base.
Sepals 4–6 mm. long in flower, oblong-elliptic, rounded, becoming deep cherry-red, 8–11 (13) mm. long, convex and spreading in fruit.
Stamens with anthers 1–1·5 mm. long, 1/3 –1/2 as long as the filaments, straight, dehiscing by longitudinal slits.
Drupelets flattened-cylindric, inserted at the base, 9–10 (13) × 6·5–8 mm.; embryo slightly curved.
Petals deep yellow, 7–11 x 5–7 mm., obovate, narrowed to a short claw.
Carpels 6–8, with styles completely united; stigma subglobose.
