Shrubs or trees, up to 4.5 m. Twigs shortly hairy when young. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong or slightly ovate or obovate, 4-9 by 2-4 cm, base rounded to acute, margin entire, apex usually acute and mucronate, sometimes shortly acuminate, stiff-coriaceous, with 7-9 pairs of nerves, often not distinctly different from strong intermediate veins, venation widely reticulate, reddish when young, red before falling, shortly hairy on main nerves when young, glabrescent. Petiole 0.5-1 cm long. Stipules narrowly triangular, up to 3 by 0.5 mm, keeled inside, sparsely hairy, glandular on the keel, caducous; Racemes pyramidal, up to 4 cm long, with up to 8 first order laterals of up to 3.5 cm long and usually branched again, lowermost laterals usually in ax Lis of leaves, rachises hairy, pedicels up to 3 mm long, hairy. Hypanthium campanulate, up to 2 mm high, only the basal half connate with the ovary, sparsely hairy outside. Sepals triangular, 1-1.5 by 1.7-2 mm, usually ciliolate. Petals elliptic to broadly orbicular, up to 4.5 by 4 mm, white to pinkish. Stamens 17-20, filaments up to 3 mm, anthers up to 1 mm long. Ovary semi-inferior, shortly hairy on the dome-shaped free top, 3-?, 4-or 5-celled, styles up to 3.5 mm long, halfway connate, hairy at extreme base. Fruits (sub)globu-lar, up to 8 by 8 mm when dry, free part of hypanthium and sepals closely appressed against the top, exocarp sparsely hairy, red, mesocarp thick and fleshy, up to 2 mm thick when dry, endocarp thin, bony; Seeds 1-5, ellipsoid to obovoid, c. 4 by 2 mm, with firm, brown testa.
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