Glabrous shrub with neither spines nor tendrils.. Branchlets yellowish, smooth, lenticellate, subtetragonal, with four ± conspicuous raised ridges.. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate; lamina yellowish, coriaceous, obovate to broadly elliptic, 6–8 cm. long, 4–6 cm. wide, rounded and then shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or more rarely rounded at the base, ± shining above, dull below, 5–nerved from the base and with a marginal pair of nerves along the somewhat inrolled margins; tertiary nerves prominent and conspicuously reticulate above, not so beneath.. Cymes compound, axillary and terminal, pedunculate; peduncle 2–22 mm. long.. Flowers 4-merous, pedicellate, up to 6 per cyme, 2–5 mm. long and 4 mm. in diameter when open.. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate-orbicular, ciliate.. Corolla sub-rotate; lobes ovate, about 2 mm. long, much longer than the tube, acute, pubescent within in lower part, glabrous outside.. Stamens inserted in the sinuses of the corolla-lobes, exserted.. Ovary globose; style short.. Fruit subglobose, about 1.5 cm. in diameter with a firm rind, orange.. Seeds 3, subtetragonal, slightly compressed, about 10 mm. long, 8 mm. wide.
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