Tree, flowering on older twigs from adventitious axillary buds. Nodal glands indistinct, elongated. Petiole 9-10 mm. Leaf-blade 14-20 by 6.5-8 cm, apex obtuse to very shortly acuminate; above yellowish green, midrib protruding; beneath: secondary nerves 8 or 9 pairs, not forming an intramarginal nerve; glands c. 12-18, mostly at 2-5 mm from the margin, some scattered, 0.2-0.3 mm diam. Inflorescences up to 4 cm long; nodal glands present but very indistinct. Flowers unknown. Fruit (immature) c. 3 mm stipitate, ovoid, c. 2 by 1.2 cm, more or less fleshy, finely pustulate, light reddish, glabrous; pericarp hard; pedicel 5-6 mm, glabrous. Seed 1 (sub)apical, developing from one of the 12 opposite ovules which are situated only in the apical half of the young fruit.
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