| Description : | Lofty trees, bole straight, sometimes with small buttresses; bark surface yellowish-brown, deeply spirally fissured; blaze red with white streaks; branchlets subquadrangular, minutely brown tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole slender, grooved above, glabrescent; lamina, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, shining.Flowers bisexual, white, in panicles or racemes, terminal and from the axils of the upper leaves; sepals 4, concave, elliptic, outer ones reflexed, ciliolate; petals 4, white, orbicular, early cauducous, inner ones smaller; stamens numerous, filaments united at the base; ovary superior, stigma peltate, concave, obscurely lobed. Fruit a drupe, obliquely ovoid, dark purple, smooth." |
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