A dioecious shrub or small tree.. Twigs smooth and greenish at first, later becoming longitudinally rugulose and light brown.. Young shoots and petioles very sparingly pubescent, soon glabrescent.. Leaves opposite or verticillate (in whorls of 3), rarely subopposite; petioles canaliculate, 0.2–1.8(–2.5) cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic or elliptic-oblanceolate, 3.5–15(–17) cm. long, 1.4–5(–7) cm. wide, subacute, acute or acutely acuminate, cuneate or ± attenuate, entire or subentire with 1(–2) pairs of small glands on the margin towards the base, membranaceous to thinly chartaceous, lateral nerves (5–)7(–9) pairs, brochidodromous, looping well within the margin, with further and weaker series of loops nearer the margin, slightly prominent above and beneath, very sparingly pubescent along the midrib beneath at first and soon glabrescent, otherwise completely glabrous.. Male inflorescences axillary or subterminal, sessile, simply spicate, fairly laxly flowered, 1–4(–10) cm. long, slender; axis sparingly to evenly pubescent; bracts broadly triangular-ovate, 1 mm. long and wide, eglandular, pubescent.. Male flowers in small 1–6-flowered glomerules along the axis; calyx-lobes 3, broadly ovate, concave, 1 mm. long and wide, acute, inflexed, glabrous, whitish-hyaline with a yellowish-green midrib; anther-thecae 0.5 mm. diameter; pistillode capitate, 0.5 mm. high, shallowly 4-lobate at the apex.. Female inflorescences and flowers, and fruit, not known.. Fig. 70.
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