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| Habit : | Small trees ca. 8 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish, irregularly large flaky; blaze pinkish. |
| Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, pubescent. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole ca. 0.3 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 3-6 x 1-1.3 cm, narrow elliptic to narrow oblanceolate, apex obtuse or acuminate with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin recurved, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, pubescent when young, later glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary tertiary and intramarginal nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence cymes, 2-3 flowered on short axillary tubercled peduncles, rarely solitary; petals white. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, crowned with calyx lobes; seed one. |