Description:
Evergreen shrubs, 1.5-4 m tall; branches terete, young branches and twigs ridge, green or brown when dry. Leaves opposite; petiole sturdy, short, less than 0.5 cm; leaf blade leathery or thickly leathery, obovate or elliptic-obovate, occasionally elliptic, 2-2.5 × 5-6 cm, base cuneate or attenuate, margin crenulate, serrulate to serrate, apex acute, acuminate, sometimes obtuse; lateral veins 5-6 pairs, inapparent, obscure to clear, curving forward, netting and disappearing before reaching margin. Cymes single, axillary; peduncle slender, 2-3 cm, dichotomously branched with 3 flowers; pedicel 7-9 mm. Flowers 4-merous, 5-6 mm in diam.; sepals broad ovate, small, greenish; petals reddish, ovate, top obtuse, ca. 1.9 × 2.1 mm. Capsule greenish when fresh, reddish when dry, 4-lobed, 1.2-1.5 cm in diam., sometimes only 2 or 3 lobes developed, lobes ovoid. Seeds milky white; aril bright red partial covering seed.