Subarborescent shrub or small tree, up to 18 m. Leaves coriaceous, broad-elliptic, obovate-elliptic to nearly lanceolate, apex rounded or shortly acuminate, base more or less attenuate, closely cren-ate-dentate, teeth apiculate, glabrous, (4-)8-12½ by 3-6 cm; nervation very prominent beneath; primary nerves 5-7 on each side, anastomosing; petioles 1½-2½ (-4) cm. Inflorescence terminal or pseudolateral, paniculate, short-pyramidal, up to 5 cm long and 8 cm wide; lower ramifications 3-5-nately whorled, upper ones alternate; peduncle 3-6 cm; bracteoles small, lanceolate to ovate. Flowers fully 5 mm wide, fragrant. Calyx-limb 1 mm long, distinctly toothed, teeth ovate-triangular. Corolla creamy white, globular in bud, rotate-campanulate when open, glabrous, tube short, fully 1 mm, lobes up to 2 mm, ovate, rounded. Stamens hardly exserted; filaments in bud with in-flexed top, inferior part adnate to corolla ½-1 mm, free part 1½-2 mm; anthers elliptic, 1 mm. Ovary cylindric, glabrous, 2 mm long. Drupe obovoid, 7-9 by 5-6 mm, compressed. Endocarp in cross-section slightly undulate and with strongly incurved edges, ventral side therefore deeply intruding, embracing a broad, bilobate cavity.
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