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Shrub or small tree, (1)3-12 m high. Leaves large, up to 0.3 x 0.15 m, petiolate; domatia as hairy tufts in nerve axils. Stipules green, ovate, deciduous. Flowers in dense, axillary panicles. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes linear; tube campanulate. Corolla 5-lobed, white, glabrous; lobes narrowly elliptic, acuminate, contorted; tube long, narrowly cylindric, hairy within. Stamens 5, arising in corolla mouth, usually exserted; anthers linear, sessile, with curved apiculus. Disc annular. Style filiform, exserted; stigma fusiform. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Fruit baccate, ellipsoid, many-seeded. Seeds somewhat compressed, striate.
Inflorescences present in top node or more usually in the next 2–4 nodes down, many-flowered, forming oblong or conical panicles, 2–5 cm long (excluding the flowers); peduncles 3–10 mm long, glabrous or pubescent; branches apparent in mature inflorescences; pedicels (0)1–5 mm long; bracts/bracteoles 1.25–9 mm long, ovate or narrowly lanceolate, pubescent or ciliate.
Leaf blades 7.2–25.5 × 2.9–12.5 cm, elliptic to oblong, acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, shiny, entirely glabrous or pubescent beneath; lateral nerves in 9–14 main pairs; domatia present; petiole 7–15 mm long; stipules 6–20 × 3–10 mm, triangular or lanceolate, acute, mid-nerve not apparent.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 4-8 m high. The bark is smooth and the branches hang over. The leaves are oblong and 16 cm long by 5 cm wide. They are shiny. The flowers are white and in groups in the axils of leaves. They have a scent. The fruit are black and shiny. They are 5 cm long.
Fruit 1.5–6.3 × 0.9–3 cm, globose, ellipsoid, spindle-shaped or fusiform, rounded, acute or constricted and bottle-neck-shaped at apex, glabrous, thin-to rather thick-walled (not in the Flora Zambesiaca area); calyx limb persistent.
Calyx glabrous or pubescent; tube 1.5–2 mm long; limb-tube 0.75–1.75 mm long, not or scarcely wider than tube; lobes 1–3.5 mm long, triangular, acute, ciliate to pubescent.
Anthers exserted, long acuminate, with well marked sagittate basal appendages, usually different in colour to the thecae when dry.
Corolla tube glabrous, 1.8–7 cm × 1–1.5 mm, pubescent inside; lobes 5–18 × 1.2–3 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute.
Shrub or small tree 2–6(12) m tall with horizontal glabrous branches; bark smooth.
Seeds ochre or light brown, 4 mm long, striated (fingerprint-like).
Pollen presenter 1–1.5 mm long, pale green, fusiform.
A shrub or tree, to 50 ft. high
Fragrant white flowers
Dark shining foliage
Flowers fragrant.
