Twigs glabrous. Leaves often coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic (to obovate) with acute base, entire margin and acuminate apex, 6-10 by 2-4½ cm; nerves 7-10 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein; petiole 5-8 mm. Raceme to 8 cm, axis glab-rous or sparsely minutely pilose. Bracts and bracteoles with same indument, ovate, caducous, iy2 and 1 mm respectively. Pedicel to 2(-5) mm. Calyx glabrous, 1½ mm long, the semi-orbicular lobes 1-1¼ mm long. Corolla c. 6 mm. Stamens c. 100. Disk shortly pilose. Ovary glabrous, 1½ mrn high; style glabrous, c. 5 mm, sometimes reduced. Fruit nearly globose, c. 10 by 8 mm, or ellipsoid-ampulliform, c. 10 by 5 mm, 3-celled, often only 1 cell fertile. Seed often only 1, straight with straight embryo.
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