A small tree or an arborescent shrub, glabrate; branches terete, smooth, erect-patent. Leaves oval-ovate, obtusely narrowed at the apex, somewhat narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, glossy, dark above, redder beneath, slightly wavy or flat, inconspicuously veined, 2 1/2–5 by 1–2 1/2 in.; petiole 1/10– 1/5 in. Flowers trimerous, subsessile, 1/4– 2/5 in. long, in very abbreviated axillary cymes, the male ones a few together, the female ones unknown. Calyx campanulate, not quite glabrous, 1/10 in. long, trifid, with round ciliolate lobes, not accrescent. Corolla white, tubular; tube exceeding the calyx; lobes 3, short, rounded. Stamens 6–9 in the male plant, linear, acute, somewhat hairy, inserted at the base of the corolla. Ovary in the male plant rudimentary, hairy. Fruit subglobose, with 5–6 obscure rounded sides, nearly 1 in. diameter, 5–6-celled, of a bright orange colour when ripe, glossy, nearly glabrate but showing remains of hairs. Fruiting calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. diameter, spreading, appressed to the base of the fruit, not quite glabrous. Seeds 5–6, solitary in the cells; albumen ruminated.
