a tree 30–40 ft. high; bark grey; leaves thinly coriaceous or almost chartaceous, glabrous, dark green shining above, paler and dull beneath, elliptic or oblong or subobovate, obtuse or rarely subacute, base cuneate, margin faintly crisped, distinctly 3-nerved, lateral nerves closely applied to midrib from 2–4 lin. above the base, 1 1/4–4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. wide; petiole glabrous, slender, 1–3 lin. long; cymes 3–5-flowered, axillary or from wood below leaves, 4–6 lin. long, as much across; peduncles 1–2 lin. long; bracts 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long; teeth 4, oblong, with ciliate margins; tube subobsolete; corolla white or yellow, 3 lin. long; tube as long as lobes; lobes 4, at length spreading, outside glabrous, within with a ring of hairs at throat; stamens 4, adnate to corolla-throat; filaments subobsolete; anthers slightly exserted; ovary 2-celled, in the upper half pilose like the base of the style with long white hairs; ovules several in each cell; berry globose, when ripe yellow, 3 (less often 4) in. in diam.; seeds few, irregularly ovoid, subcompressed, 8 lin. long, 6 lin. wide, 4 lin. thick. null
