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Low shrub to medium-sized tree. Twigs glabrous or nearly so, dark-coloured. Leaves glabrous, acuminate to caudate with attenuate base and glandular dentate margin, ± elliptic, 2-10 by ¾-4½ cm; nerves 5-8 pairs, meeting in an intramarginal vein; petiole 2-10 mm. Raceme few to many-flowered, 1-6 cm long; axis from nearly glabrous to pilose or pubescent. Bracts at base of pedicel, with the bracteoles soon caducous, appressedly hairy, 2-5 and ½-4 mm long respectively. Pedicel ½-13mm. Calyx glabrous to (sparsely) appressedly hairy, divided into ⅓ to 1½ mm long lobes. Corolla 4-8 mm. Stamens 25-40. Disk glabrous. Ovary glabrous to shortly sparsely appressedly hairy, 1-2 mm high; style glabrous, 2—11 mm. Fruit ovoid to ampulliform, 6-10 by 3-6 mm; stone shallowly (brain-like) grooved. Seed curved, embryo once or twice curved.
A tree. The leaves are narrowly oval and 2-10 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. The flowers are white or yellow. The fruit are oval and 6-10 mm long by 3-6 mm wide.
