Rauvolfia littoralis Rusby

elliptic or broadly ovate, acute to acuminate, obtuse basally, the larger leaves to 14 cm long and 6 cm wide, the smaller leaves 1/4 to 1/2 the size of the larger, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on the midrib above and beneath, firmly mem-branaceous; petioles glandular, ca. 2-6 mm long, glandular in the axils. Inflor-escences cymose, axillary and opposite, the peduncle 1-4 cm long, softly pubes-cent to ? glabrous, bracts minute. Flowers with the pedicels ca. 2-5 mm long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate and rounded, the margin frequently fimbriolate, ca. 0.6-0.8 mm long; corolla broadly tubular, white, the tube ca. 2-2.5 cm long, pubescent within, the lobes ? deltoid, erect, ca. 0.4 mm long; stamens attached near the top of the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 0.5 mm long; ovary syncarpous, the nectary cupulate, shallow, and entire, the stigma depressed-capitate. Drupes + spherical, ca. 6-8(-15) mm in diameter, becoming dark-red to black at maturity, the bony endocarp rugose; seeds 2, ovoid.