Trees, to 8 m tall. Branchlets light brown, slender; older branchlets dark brown, terete, glabrous. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade oblanceolate, obovate-elliptic, or oblong, 7-8 × 3.5-4 cm, subleathery, adaxially glandular punctate, secondary veins 8-9 on each side of midvein, ca. 8 mm apart, and inconspicuous, intramarginal veins 2-3 mm from margin, base attenuate to cuneate, margins slightly revolute, apex cuspidate. Inflorescences axillary, cymes 3-4 cm, few-flowered; branches short, opposite. Flowers pink, ca. 3 mm. Hypanthium campanulate. Calyx lobes broadly triangular, very short. Petals coherent. Stamens numerous, ca. 3 mm; anthers elliptic, small. Style ca. 3 mm; stigma sharp. Fruit blackish purple, globose, ca. 3 mm in diam., apically with a persistent calyx rim. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep.
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A medium size tree. The twigs are slender and round. The leaves and the ends of branches are smooth. The leaves are opposite, oblong, and with the base blunt. The flowers are clustered along the branches mostly below the leaves. The flowers are whitish and in clusters of 3. They do not have stalks and come from the ends of small branches. The fruit are nearly round and purplish to nearly black when mature.
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