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| Habit : | Large shrubs or treelets ca. 4 m tall. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets quadrangular, slender, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 0.2 cm long, glabrous; lamina 6.5-11.5 x 1.5-2.8 cm, lanceolate with narrowly tapering apex, base rounded, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib canaliculate with intramarginal_nerve; secondary_nerves faintly visible at least when dry, ca. 15 pairs; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence clusters of short peduncled cymes, lateral; petals blue; calyx red. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, black; seed 1. |