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Much branched shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall; young branches glabrous and yellowish, older bark grey-brown. Leaf-lamina 3–8 x 1.5–3.5 cm., coriaceous, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, apex obtuse and apiculate, cuneate or abruptly and narrowly rounded at the base, margin cartilaginous and sometimes minutely scaberulous, glabrous on both sides, midrib impressed above, prominent below, secondary nerves slightly raised below in adult leaves; petiole up to 8 mm. long, minutely pubescent on the upper side. Inflorescences in terminal, moderately dense, c. 20-flowered racemes on short axillary branches with usually 1–2 leaves below the inflorescence on each branch; bracteoles 3–5 mm. long, subulate, trifid with the middle lobe longest; pedicels up to 1.2 cm. long, glabrous. Sepals greenish, 5–7.5 x 3–4 mm., finally reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute at the apex, pubescent within and densely ciliate at the margins; receptacle granular. Stamens 15–40; filaments up to 1 cm. long, glabrous. Gynophore up to 9 mm. long, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigma capitate, subsessile; ovules 12–15 on 2 placentas. Fruit globose, up to 2 cm. in diam., yellowish, glabrous, shortly apiculate at the apex. Seed usually 1, 7–8 mm. in diam., globose; testa shallowly rugose.

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Much branched shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall; young branches glabrous and yellowish, older bark grey-brown. Leaf-lamina 3–8 x 1.5–3.5 cm., coriaceous, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, apex obtuse and apiculate, cuneate or abruptly and narrowly rounded at the base, margin cartilaginous and sometimes minutely scaberulous, glabrous on both sides, midrib impressed above, prominent below, secondary nerves slightly raised below in adult leaves; petiole up to 8 mm. long, minutely pubescent on the upper side. Inflorescences in terminal, moderately dense, c. 20-flowered racemes on short axillary branches with usually 1–2 leaves below the inflorescence on each branch; bracteoles 3–5 mm. long, subulate, trifid with the middle lobe longest; pedicels up to 1.2 cm. long, glabrous. Sepals greenish, 5–7.5 x 3–4 mm., finally reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute at the apex, pubescent within and densely ciliate at the margins; receptacle granular. Stamens 15–40; filaments up to 1 cm. long, glabrous. Gynophore up to 9 mm. long, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigma capitate, subsessile; ovules 12–15 on 2 placentas. Fruit globose, up to 2 cm. in diam., yellowish, glabrous, shortly apiculate at the apex. Seed usually 1, 7–8 mm. in diam., globose; testa shallowly rugose.

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Much branched shrub or small tree up to 6 m. tall; young branches glabrous and yellowish, older bark grey-brown. Leaf-lamina 3–8 x 1.5–3.5 cm., coriaceous, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, apex obtuse and apiculate, cuneate or abruptly and narrowly rounded at the base, margin cartilaginous and sometimes minutely scaberulous, glabrous on both sides, midrib impressed above, prominent below, secondary nerves slightly raised below in adult leaves; petiole up to 8 mm. long, minutely pubescent on the upper side. Inflorescences in terminal, moderately dense, c. 20-flowered racemes on short axillary branches with usually 1–2 leaves below the inflorescence on each branch; bracteoles 3–5 mm. long, subulate, trifid with the middle lobe longest; pedicels up to 1.2 cm. long, glabrous. Sepals greenish, 5–7.5 x 3–4 mm., finally reflexed, narrowly ovate, acute at the apex, pubescent within and densely ciliate at the margins; receptacle granular. Stamens 15–40; filaments up to 1 cm. long, glabrous. Gynophore up to 9 mm. long, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigma capitate, subsessile; ovules 12–15 on 2 placentas. Fruit globose, up to 2 cm. in diam., yellowish, glabrous, shortly apiculate at the apex. Seed usually 1, 7–8 mm. in diam., globose; testa shallowly rugose.