Glabrous shrub or small tree, (1-) 3-5 (-12) m; bark thick, corky, whitish grey or pale brown, with fine horizontal fissures. Branchlets angular. Leaves elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, apex acuminate, base acute, subinequilateral, chartaceous to subcoriaceous (rarely coriaceous at higher altitudes), dark green above, paler beneath when fresh, often tubercled, 5-9 (-12) by (1.2-) 3-5 (-6) cm; nerves 5-7 (-9) pairs, inarching, inconspicuous above, a little raised beneath; petiole slender, 4-6 (-7) mm. Racemes solitary, 3-7 (-10)-flowered, 2.5-3 (-4) cm; peduncle provided at base with several persistent small perular bracts; pedicels slender, (5-) 8-10 (-12) mm, distally with a cupule formed by 1 bract and 2 bracteoles, 0.5 mm. Calyx obconical, edge truncate, adherent to the ovary and accrescent in fruit. Corolla tubular, fleshy, whitish or pinkish to yellowish, or even sulphur-yellow, with a scent of jasmine, tube 0.8-1 cm long, 4-5 mm ø, grooved at base where it is agglutinated (or connate) around the ovary; lobes oblong, subacute, 4-5 mm, with a tuft of hairs at their inner base above the insertion of the anthers. Stamens (4) 5; filaments cohering to corolla tube; anthers ovate, subbilobed, free in the throat. Disk epi-gynous, pulvinate. Ovary half-superior, turbinate, 5-6 mm long; style as long as or shorter than the corolla tube; stigma generally 3-lobed. Drupe ellipsoid-oblongoid, whitish or cream to yellow, (0.7-) 1-1.2 cm long, 0.7-0.8 mm ø, crowned by the disk; pericarp succulent when ripe, 1-2 mm thick; endocarp thin-crustaceous, striate lengthwise. Seed 1, white, conforming with the endocarp.
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Shrubs or trees, 2.5-10 m tall. Branchlets pale brown. Petiole 4-7 mm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, oblong-ovate, or elliptic, 6-11 × 3.5-5 cm, ± leathery, base cuneate and unequal, apex acuminate; secondary veins 3-8 on each side of midvein. Inflorescences 2-3.5 cm, 5-10-flowered; peduncle base with few persistent bud scales. Pedicel 5-6 mm; base of flower with a 3-lobed cupular epicalyx. Calyx cupular. Corolla whitish or pale yellow, tubular; tube 5-6 mm, throat broader; lobes 3-angular, 3-4 mm. Disk pulvinate. Style shorter than or as long as corolla tube. Drupe yellow, ± globose, 7-9 mm in diam. Fl. Sep-Dec, fr. Oct-Mar.
A shrub or small tree. It grows 3-10 m tall. The small branches are pale brown. The leaves are narrowly oval and 6-11 cm long by 4-5 cm wide. The base is wedge shaped and unequal. There are 5-10 flowers in a group 2-3.5 cm long. The fruit are fleshy and 7-9 mm across.
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