a tree 30–40 ft. high; bark pale below, green above; twigs knotted; leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dark green shining above, paler and dull beneath, wide ovate, gradually narrowed in upper third to an obtuse or subacute tip, base wide-cuneate or rounded, usually gradually increasing in size upwards from base to apex of twig but occasionally all remaining small throughout, 3- or 5-nerved from or from very near the base, 1–3 1/2 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. wide; petiole glabrous, 2–3 lin. long; cymes simple, 3–5-flowered or once (sometimes twice) decussately branched, each branch 3–5-flowered, axillary; main peduncles 3–6 lin. long; branches when present 2–3 lin. long; bracts 1/2 lin. long; pedicels subobsolete; calyx wide campanulate, 3/4 lin. long; teeth 5, suborbicular, with ciliate margins; tube very short; corolla white, at length becoming pale orange, thick, 3 lin. long; tube hardly as long as lobes; lobes 5, at length spreading, quite glabrous without and within; stamens 5, adnate to corolla-throat; filaments very short, thick; anthers exserted; ovary 2-celled, and style glabrous; ovules solitary in each cell; berry globose, orange-red, when ripe 6 lin. in diam., almost always 1-seeded; seed globose or ovoid, 3 lin. in diam. null
