Shrub or generally a slender tree, up to 20 m. tall. Branchlets drooping, brown, longitudinally striate with a stronger line decurrent from a stipular cushion. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, or oblanceolate, apex subacute or obtuse, base cuneate, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, often becoming bluish-green when dried, glabrous, serrate to serrulate, often entire towards the base, 3–8 cm. long, 1.2–2.8 cm. broad; lateral nerves 8–10 pairs, rather inconspicuous; petioles up to 3 mm. long. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2–3 (rarely more) in a fascicle or short raceme, 8–10 mm. in diameter; pedicels ± 1 cm. long. Sepals white, turning yellowish, orbicular, ± 5 mm. across, connate for 1–1.5 mm. at the base, the inner 3 more membranous and petaloid. Filaments 4–5 mm. long; anthers orbicular, 0.7 mm. across. Ovary ellipsoid; stigma as wide as the ovary, persistent. Berry globose, white, ± 5 mm. across. Seeds ± 2 mm. across. Fig. 19.