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| Habit : | Small trees, 5-7 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets glabrous, young branches puberulous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petioles 0.6-1 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 8-22 x 4-4.5 cm, linear-lanceolate, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate, coriaceous, glabrous, often black dotted beneath; midrib canaliculate above; secondary_nerves 13-25 pairs, slender, looped at margin; tertiary_nerves coarsely reticulate, not prominent. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary, purple with yellow tinge; pedicels 7-12 mm long, pubescent. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Aggregated 1-seeded berry, nearly sessile, ellipsoid, apex apiculate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, glabrous, yellowish when ripe. |