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| Habit : | Large spreading shrubs or treelets ca. 4 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.3-0.4 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 3-9.5 x 0.5-1.9 cm, narrow linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, apex acute, base attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib slightly canaliculate above with intramarginal_nerve; secondary and tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers axillary umbels, blue. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, globose, black-purple, 0.7 cm across; seed 1. |