Shrub or small tree (2–)3–6 m. tall; branches slender, glabrous or with sparse bifarious pubescence, brown and ridged and somewhat glossy, lenticellate.. Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong to narrowly oblong, 2.5–10 cm. long, 0.8–4.2 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous save for sparsely pubescent domatia beneath, scarcely discolorous; petiole 2–7 mm. long, slightly winged; stipule-bases 2–3 mm. long, pilose inside, the appendages short, subulate, ± 1.5 mm. long.. Inflorescences 2-flowered; peduncles 4–8 mm. long; pedicels 1.5–3.5 mm. long, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent; bracts ovate, 1.5–2 mm. long, acuminate.. Calyx-tube 1 mm. long, the limb ± 1 mm. long, 5-toothed.. Buds distinctly acuminate.. Corolla greenish cream to yellow; tube 2–4.5 mm. long; lobes 2.5–3 mm. long, 1.2–1.5 mm. wide, with appendage 0.7–2 mm. long.. Ovary 2-locular; stigmatic club distinctly 2-lobed above.. Fruit violet to black, obcordate, 0.8–1.1 cm. long and wide, with 2 pyrenes; fruiting peduncle to 1.5 cm.
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