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Tree 1.5–20(–30) m high; trunk 2–50 cm in diameter; bark smooth or slightly rough, pale to dark grey; wood hard, durable. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3–5, petiolate; blade narrowly elliptic to oblong, rarely obovate, 4–23 cm long, 1.1–8 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate with acumen 4–12 mm long, cuneate at the base or decurrent intothe petiole; petiole 5–20 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, rarely terminal, 10–30(–40)-flowered; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Flowers white, fragrant or not; sepals broadly ovate to elliptic, up to 2.5 mm long; corolla white to orange-yellow; tube greenish white, 6.2–10.5 mm long; lobes ovate or elliptic to suborbicular, 1.3–4.5(–4.8) mm long, up to 3.5 mm wide; stamens inserted 4.6–8(–9.5) mm from the base; pistil glabrous, 4.6–8.6(–9.7) mm long; pistil head ellipsoid to ovoid. Fruits yellow, subglobose to pyriform, sometimes stipitate, 13–23(–30) mm long, up to 24 mm in diameter; seeds ellipsoid to oblong, 6.5–13.5×4.5–9.5×2–4 mm. Fig. 13 (p. 40).