Trees ca. 20 m tall. Young branchlets puberulous. Leaves opposite, usually clustered at apex of branchlets; petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic-oblanceolate or long elliptic, 7-15 × 3-5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially puberulous or glabrous, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins in 8-12 pairs, base cuneate, margin entire, rarely dentate, apex acute. Bracts linear, small. Pedicel 3-4 mm, puberulous. Calyx tube puberulous; lobes ovate-triangular, minute. Petals white, linear, ca. 1 cm, apex acute. Stamens shorter than petals. Ovary pubescent. Style shorter than or subequaling corolla. Berry black when dry, ovoid, ca. 1 × 0.7 cm.