Alagaw (Tag.)

Shrub to tree Height: 1-10m Leaves: Leaves opposite, ovate or obovate, rotundate to lanceolate, 2.5 – 16 (− 20) × (2 –) 4 – 10 (− 13.5) cm, apex emarginate to acuminate, base emarginate to cordate, margins entire to serrate, membranous or subchartaceous, pubescent, crushed leaves with disagreeable smell, yellowish green above, whitish below; hairs single, erect, covering both surfaces or rarely only on veins with few hairs on blade; glands present; venation often tri-veined from base, 3 – 7 main side veins, often tri-veined from the base; petioles 0.3 – 7 cm long, velutinous to sparsely hairy Flowers: Inflorescences 4 – 15 cm long, corymbose cyme, puberulous; bracteoles linear, < 1 mm long, calyx usually two-lipped, 5-lobed; flowering calyx 1.5 – 3 mm long, densely pubescent, slightly accrescent; lobes sub-equal with the back ones slightly bigger then other three, 0.5 – 1 mm long, apex acute to rounded; lobes 0.5 – 1 mm long, apex rounded to sub-acute; fruiting 3 – 6 mm diam., variously lobed, patent Fruits: Fruit globose, 3 – 5 × 3 – 4 mm diam., glabrous, sometimes with a few hairs at apex, sometimes covered with glands, black to purple when mature, endocarp smooth; seeds four and equally developed when mature.