Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, elliptic to obovate, (faintly) acuminate, with acute, attenuate base and crenate or crenulate apex, 4-6½ by 1½-2½ cm; nerves 6-8 pairs, meeting in a looped intramarginal vein; petiole 5-7 mm. Flowers in a short lax raceme to P/2 cm, axis glabrous. Bracts and bracteoles caducous, glabrous, ciliolate, 1½ and 1 mm long respectively. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx glabrous, c. 1½ mm long, the lobes 3, semi-elliptic, rounded, c. 1¼ mm long. Corolla probably 3-merous, 3-4 mm. Stamens 30-50. Disk glabrous, 3-5-glandular. Ovary glabrous, c. 1 mm high; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, truncate at both ends, 8-12 by 4-6 mm; stone shallowly lengthwise grooved without, 3-celled. Seed 1 in each cell, straight with straight embryo.
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