Trees 3.5--5 m tall. Branchlets minutely brown puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 8--10 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 9--14 X 3.5--4.5 cm, membranous to nearly papery, base cuneate, lateral veins 11--13 pairs. Racemes 8--12 mm; bracts early deciduous, oblong, ca. 2 mm; bractlets early deciduous, triangular-ovate, ca. l mm, margin membranous and ciliate. Ovary ca. 1.7 mm, glabrous. Calyx glabrous; lobes semi-orbicular, 1--1.5 mm. Corolla ca. 6 mm. Stamens ca. 110; anthers blue. Drupes ellipsoid, ca. 3 X 1 cm. Fl. Aug, fr. Dec.

* Mixed forests; 1800--2000 m. Xizang (Mêdog Xian), Yunnan (Gongshan).