Trees 12-25 m high; twigs terete, smooth, ashen-gray. Leaves with the petioles 0.7-1 cm long, 1-3 cm apart; blades well-spaced, oblong-elliptic, often narrowly so, 12-31 cm long, 3.5-8 cm wide, acute and often short-acuminate at the apex, cuneate or round-obtuse at the base, lustrous, coriaceous, yellow-brown when dry, the margin serrate, often entire for 2-3 cm from base, occasionally up to the mid-dle, the costa prominent above, often subplane above the base, prominent and longitudinally striate beneath, the lateral veins of two kinds, some (25-50) dis-tinctly prominulous, arcuate-ascending, paralleling the margin for a distance and eventually passing into a marginal tooth, the others more numerous, crowded, ir-regular, immersed or prominulous, scarcely ascending. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal-paniculate, the rachis stout, 3-5 mm wide at the base, 9-22 cm long, usually not exceeding the uppermost leaf-blades in length, angular, contorted, usually becoming caudate and lax toward the apex, the basal branches 6-13 cm long, 1-2.5 cm distant, the upper quarter of the rachis simple, the branches sub-horizontal or often subdeflexed angular-or arcuate-ascending, the flowers fasci-culate on a short sympodium or on compressed tertiary branches. Flowers with the pedicels 7-10 mm long, slender, ca 0.5 mm wide, swollen toward the apex, granulose; bracts persistent, ovate, ca 1 mm long, acute, curled; sepals linear-ovate, 6-7.5 mm long, 2-2.8 mm wide; petals obovate-spatulate, 8.5-9 mm long, 6-7.5 mm wide, usually inequilateral and bilobed, rounded at the apex, subspatulate at the base; anthers 5-6 mm long; stipe of pistil ca 0.5 mm long, the ovary ca 1.2 mm long, the style subulate ca 5.5 mm long. Fruits with the pedicels bright red, curved, 6.5-8.5 mm long, ca 0.75 mm wide, the torus obovate-oblong to rotund, 5-10 mm long, the drupes oblong-rotund to subrotund, up to 9 mm long and 8 mm wide.
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