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Tree or few–stemmed shrub, 1·50–12 m. high, without spines. Leaves petiolate; lamina dark green above, pale greyish–green beneath, drying greenish–brown and coriaceous, very narrowly obovate to linear or sometimes narrowly ovate, 2 1/2–10 (usually about 4–7) x as long as wide, 11–75 x 3–15 (usually about 15–40 x 3–8) cm., long–decurrent into the petiole; costa prominent and acutely triangular beneath; secondary veins rather inconspicuous; margin neither recurved nor revolute. Sepals pale green, rounded, also when dry strongly appressed to the base of the corolla tube, which therefore is slightly contacted, and later to the fruit, smooth and shining, the outer ones broadly ovate or orbicular, 4–8 x 4–8 mm., the inner ones slightly larger and becoming tom by the development of the corolla. Corolla in the mature bud 4·5–7 times as long as the calyx, 32–54 mm. long, and as in the young bud rounded or somewhat tapering at the apex, white, the limb paler than the tube which is usually greenish–white; tube 3–5 times as long as the calyx, 1·8–3 times as long as the lobes; lobes 10–12, narrowly elliptic, spreading. Berry globose or ovoid, when dry irregularly shrivelled, thin–walled; wall about 1 mm. thick.

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Tree or few–stemmed shrub, 1·50–12 m. high, without spines. Leaves petiolate; lamina dark green above, pale greyish–green beneath, drying greenish–brown and coriaceous, very narrowly obovate to linear or sometimes narrowly ovate, 2 1/2–10 (usually about 4–7) x as long as wide, 11–75 x 3–15 (usually about 15–40 x 3–8) cm., long–decurrent into the petiole; costa prominent and acutely triangular beneath; secondary veins rather inconspicuous; margin neither recurved nor revolute. Sepals pale green, rounded, also when dry strongly appressed to the base of the corolla tube, which therefore is slightly contacted, and later to the fruit, smooth and shining, the outer ones broadly ovate or orbicular, 4–8 x 4–8 mm., the inner ones slightly larger and becoming tom by the development of the corolla. Corolla in the mature bud 4·5–7 times as long as the calyx, 32–54 mm. long, and as in the young bud rounded or somewhat tapering at the apex, white, the limb paler than the tube which is usually greenish–white; tube 3–5 times as long as the calyx, 1·8–3 times as long as the lobes; lobes 10–12, narrowly elliptic, spreading. Berry globose or ovoid, when dry irregularly shrivelled, thin–walled; wall about 1 mm. thick.