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Shrubs or small trees 1.5-5 m, evergreen. Branchlets terete, brown and puberulent at first, becoming gray-black and glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 6-9 × 1.5-3.5 cm, thick leathery, glabrous, base attenuate, apex acute to caudate-acuminate; primary veins 4 on each side of midrib. Panicles terminal, 5-13 × 7.5-12 cm; rachis puberulent. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx ca. 1 mm, glabrous. Corolla 3-3.5 mm; tube ca. as long as lobes or slightly shorter. Stamens not exceeding corolla lobes; anthers 1.5-1.8 mm. Fruit black, subglobose. Fl. May, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Woods, thickets in valleys; 1500-2100 m. Guizhou, Yunnan