Morphological description: Small trees; stem smooth with pealing bark; young stem 4-angled. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-oblong, apex acute-apiculate, base rounded to obtuse-cuneate, hirsute on both sides when young, glabrous on ageing except the nerves, thin-coriaceous; lateral nerves prominent; petioles 0.6-1 cm long. Cymes axillary, 1-3-flowered; pedicel short or 0. Calyx tube ovoid, densely hirsute; lobes 4, unitedland closed in bud. Petals 4, white, broadly ovate, caducous. Stamens many. Ovary globose, many-celled; ovules numerous; style subulate. Berry globose crowned by persistent calyx lobes; seeds many, embedded in fleshy pulp.