Tree or small bush 2–7 m. tall; young branches glabrous; older branches without corky bark.. Leaf-blades elliptic, oblong or obovate, (8–)12–28 cm. long, (2–)5–12 cm. wide, apex subacuminate to acuminate, base acute, glabrous, subcoriaceous, shiny above, midrib prominent beneath, tertiary nerves slighdy raised on both faces, finely reticulate; bacterial nodules absent; domatia sometimes present; petiole 1–6 cm. long; stipule-limbs truncate, 2–4 mm. long, often turning corky at the base, with long hairs inside, eventually deciduous; arista 1–2 mm. long.. Corymbs terminal on main and lateral leafy branches, moderately compact to lax, 4.5–10.5 cm. across; primary inflorescence-branches 0.6–2.3 cm. long, pubescent; 2nd–4th order branches present; pedicels 0.5–3 mm. long pubescent; bracts 2–3 mm. long, stipule-like, caducous; bracteoles inconspicuous.. Calyx pubescent; tube ± 1 mm. long; limb-tube 1–2.5 mm. long, ± 3 times wider than the tube; lobes oblong or less often square, 1.5–3(–4) mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, truncate or rounded, pubescent inside, overlapping in bud.. Corolla-tube (4–)6–8 mm. long, ± 2.5 mm. wide at top, glabrous save for the densely bearded throat; lobes oblong, (4–)7–11 mm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide, rounded.. Fruit black, 8.5–9 mm. in diameter, glabrous to sparsely puberulous, calyx-lobes eventually falling.. Seed blackish with a lighter area around the excavation, 5 mm. wide, slightly rugulose.. Fig. 106/6.
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