Scolopia nitida C.T.White

Much-branched treelet or shrub, up to 1.5 m; young branchlets velutinous-pubescent. Leaves obtuse at the apex, broadly attenuate at the base, glabrous except for the puberulous upper side of the midrib, subcoriaceous, very shining above, dull beneath, remotely paucidentate or shallowly crenate to subentire; obscurely triplinerved from the base, higher lateral nerves 3-5, all somewhat prominent on both sides, veins laxly reticulate; petiole puberulous 3-4 mm. Racemes puberulous. Pedicels 3-5 mm. Sepals 4-6, ovate 1.5 mm, ciliolate. Petals 4-6, c. 2 mm. Fruit oblong, 6 by 4 mm, few-seeded.

Undergrowth of dry, bushy rain-forests along rivers, from sea-level to low altitudes.