Shrubs or small trees. Young branchlets dark purplish, glabrous or appressed pubescent; old branchlets purplish brown, glabrous. Petiole 6--12 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 6--12 X 2--4 cm, membranous, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially sparsely appressed fine short hairy, base cuneate to rounded, margin glandular dentate, apex caudate-acuminate, lateral veins 4--10 pairs. Racemes 1.5--3 cm, with some branches from base, pubescent; bracts and bractlets ovate, 1--3 mm and ca. 1 mm respectively, mostly subglabrous, margin ciliate and with 2 punctate glands. Pedicel ca. 2(--5) mm. Ovary 1--1.5 mm, minutely appressed puberulent. Calyx lobes broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm, subglabrous, margin ciliolate. Corolla 3--5 mm. Stamens 30--40. Disc glabrous, with 5 glands. Drupes green to yellowish brown, blue-black at maturity, ellipsoid, 9--12 X 4--5 mm, puberulent, apex with persistent spreading calyx lobes. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jun.
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A tree. It grows about 15 m high. The leaves are stalked. They are alternate. They are sword shaped and taper to the base. They are 6-12 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They have teeth. The flowers have stalks. They are surrounded by bracts. Flowers are yellow. The fruit is oval and 9-12 mm long by 4-5 mm wide.
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