Sprawling or climbing shrub or small tree up to 8 m. Leaves coriaceous, upperside glabrous, underside minutely gland-dotted and with a distinct glandular pit at the base on both sides of the midrib, often smaller glands in the nerve-axils; elliptic, obovate or ovate, 8-15 by 5-8 cm, apex obtuse or shortly and bluntly acuminate, rarely somewhat emarginate, base cuneate to nearly rounded, margins entire; midrib prominent beneath, primary nerves much less prominent, 4-8 on each side, arcuately anastomosing; petioles 1½-3½ cm. Inflorescence corymbiform, umbella-tely branched, 6-12 cm across (in fruit up to 15 cm), young axes rather densely brown stellate-pubescent, glabrescent; peduncle rather stout, up to 12 cm; primary rays 5-8. Bracts and bracteoles small, linear-lanceolate, rusty stellate-pubescent. Calyx-limb cupular, obscurely lobed, minutely gland-ciliolate, otherwise glabrous. Corolla tubular, obovoid-ellipsoid in bud, white; tube 3-4 mm, lobes erect, rounded to rather acute, minutely gland-ciliolate, 1 mm. Stamens long-exserted, with inflexed top in bud, inserted at base of corolla, 7-8 mm; anthers oblong, purplish, about 2 mm. Ovary cylindric, glabrous, 2 mm long. Drupe ovate, compressed, (young) bluish green, 9-10 by 6-7 mm. Endocarp undulate in cross-section, dorsally 2-grooved, ventrally 1-grooved.
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