Guyong-guyong (Tag.)

A small tree or an erect shrub. Height: 3 to 5 meters high Leaves: Leaves are opposite, well scattered, narrowly oblong to broadly oblong, paler beneath, 10 to 14 centimeters long, 3 to 4 centimeters wide, entire, slenderly pointed at the apex, blunt at the base, and borne upon petioles 5 to 8 millimeters long. Flowers: Flowers are deep-red, borne on terminal panicles which are sometimes elongated. Fruits: Fruit is smooth, dark reddish-brown, ellipsoid, about 1 centimeter long, subtended at the base by a persistent calyx, dehiscing apically into 3 parts, containing numerous small, thin, brown, winged seeds, each 5 millimeters long.