branches terete, the young glabrous or downy; leaves petioled, ovate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse, shortly emarginate, cuneate at base, crenate or callous-serrulate, netted-veined at both sides, shining, coriaceous, glabrous; umbels short-peduncled, axillary, dense, glabrous or downy; drupe broadly ovate, apiculate; seed ovate. A tree 15–20 feet high, or a much branched shrub; branches ashen; twigs leafy. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long or less, varying from orbicular to oblong, some very thick, others thinner, sub-coriaceous, with a flat or undulato-crenate margin, or serrulate or sub-entire. Petiole 1–2 lines long. Pedunc. solitary, rarely 2, 1–3 lines long (in M. sessiliflorum, E. & Z.! not shorter than in the others). Umbels 12–20 flowered, pedicels 1/2–1 line long. Flowers 2 line long. Stamens 1/3 of petals. Drupe as large as a pea, one seeded. Var. β., in other respects like α., differs in having a drupe 4–6 lines long, 2–2 1/2 wide.
