A shrub or tree up to 7 m. high. Young branches slender, narrowly 4-winged, brown, the old ones inconspicuously 4-gonous, covered with greyish longitudinally fissured bark; nodes thickened; internodes 0·5–3 cm. long. Leaf-lamina (2·5)3–6 x (1·2)1·5–3·2 cm., ovate, acuminate at the apex, the acumen up to 8 mm. long, obtuse or sometimes rather acute, cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, yellowish-green on the upper face, lighter beneath, longitudinally 1-nerved, the midrib impressed above, prominent on the under face; transverse nerves and reticulation conspicuous on both faces; petiole up to 4 mm. long. Cymes up to 2 cm. long, axillary, usually 3-flowered; inflorescence-axis 5–7 mm. long; peduncle 1–7 mm. long; pedicels 1–4 mm. long. Flower-buds c. 5 mm. long, biconical, subacute at the apex. Receptacle c. 4 mm. high and 4·6 mm. in diameter, obconic; lobes c. 2·75 mm. wide and 1 mm. high. Petals 5 x 4 mm., subrhombic, acute at the apex, whitish, subcoriaceous. Stamens with filaments c. 6 mm. long and anthers c. 2·5 mm. long, with a dorsal, elliptic, yellowish gland, all fertile or sometimes 4 fertile and 4 sterile. Ovules 2–8; style 10 mm. long. Fruit subglobose, c. 9 mm. in diameter, crowned with the calyx-lobes.
