A small tree of 20 feet or a shrub of 4–6 feet, glabrous, glossy. Stem about 10 feet high, 13 in. diam. near the base; bark smooth, grey. Branches slender, terete, compressed towards the extremities, the lower ones irregularly scattered, the upper ones opposite, brachiate, leafy. Leaves elliptic-oblong or obovate, caudate-acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, subcoriaceous, somewhat undulated, 1 1/2–5 1/4 by 1/5–1 1/3 in.; lateral veins about 7–9 pairs, inconspicuous above, marked beneath with small punctured glands in the axils; petiole 1/12– 1/6 in. long; stipules apiculate from broad ovate or subtruncate connate base, about equalling the petiole. Flowers 5/8– 7/8 in. long just before expansion, 1/3– 3/8 in. after expansion, 3–1 together, subsessile, in axillary clusters; bracteoles ovate or lanceolate-oblong, the upper ones connate below and rather exceeding the small pale green subentire calyx-limb which just exceeds the disk. Corolla-tube 1/4 in. long; lobes 6–8, oval or oblong, obtuse, 5/16– 5/8 in. long, spreading. Anthers wholly exserted, fixed at 1/3rd above the base, three times the length of the filaments, 1/4– 3/8 in. long. Style nearly equalling the unexpanded flower, bifid; lobes narrowly linear. Berry prolate-spheroidal, 1/2 in. long, black when ripe, shortly pedicelled. Seed 1/3 in. long.
