Wholly glabrous. Leaves rather small, coriaceous, shortly petiolate or subsessile, oblong-elliptical, passing from ovate-elliptical in the larger-leaved forms to narrow-oval-oblong in the smaller, acute or subacute, and, except in the narrow-leaved form, rounded sometimes broadly at the base, obscurely serrate or entire, shining and reticulate above, 1–2 in. long, 1/4–1 in. broad; petiole 1/2–1 1/2 lines. Flowers small, greenish-white, similar to those of H. andongensis, in rather few-flowered, axillary, pedunculate cymes, shorter than or equalling the leaves, singly subsessile or pedicels very short. Sepals and petals roundish, imbricate. Stamens inserted within a rather deep cupulate disk. Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary. Fruit obovate-oblong, entire, very obtuse, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in.
