Small or medium-sized tree, usually with several trunks. Lvs in whorls of (3)-4, subsessile or shortly petiolate. Lamina 12-25 × 3-6.5 cm, narrow-oblong or oblong-obovate, very coriaceous, with undulate, spiny-serrate margins, glabrous except when very young; base ± truncate or broad-cuneate; apex acute or mucronate. Racemes ± = lvs, pendulous, composed of many small fragrant white fls. Peduncle and pedicels densely clothed in rufous hairs; fls in fascicles of 2-4. Perianth 8-10 mm long, rather densely clothed in appressed hairs outside. Anthers 1.7-1.8 mm long, > free portion of filament. Ovary and style densely clothed in rufous hairs. Fr. 2.5-3.5 cm diam., globose, apiculate; endocarp shining brown, thick. Seed large.