Descr. emend. Small tree up to 15 m, sometimes shrublike. Leaves more or less coriaceous, dull, dark olivaceous above, brownish green or brown beneath, glabrous above, glabrous to softly villous with simple, forked, and stellate hairs beneath, neither glandular-pitted at the base nor bearded in the nerve-axils, elliptic-oblong, ovate or obovate, up to 26 by 14 cm; apex abruptly short-acuminate (acumen rather blunt, 2—1 cm); base cuneate to somewhat rounded, slightly decurrent on the petiole; margin entire, sometimes remotely and obscurely undulate; nervation indistinct above, prominent beneath; primary nerves 4-7 on either side of the midrib, anastomosing; petioles 2-4 cm. Inflorescence umbellate, corymbiform, up to 20 cm across; axes stellately pubescent to subglabrous; peduncle stout, up to 10 cm; primary rays up to 8, up to 10 cm. Flowers small, c. 4 mm wide. Calyx-limb distinctly 5-lobed; lobes triangular, glandular-ciliolate, c. 1 mm. Corolla globular in bud, rotate-cupulate, glabrous, white; tube 1 mm, lobes ovate, c. I1!2 mm. Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla, much exserted; filaments serpentine in bud, 7-8 mm; anthers oblong, 1 mm. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 1.5 mm. Drupe oblong, sometimes very slightly dilated upwards, much flattened, with a distinct groove on both sides, at first green, twining black, 15-16 by 6-7 mm. Endocarp with a broad longitudinal groove on the dorsal side, the incurved edges forming a deep, broad, in cross-section bilobed furrow on the ventral side.
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