Family: Lauraceae

Description: 

Trees, to 20 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, brown, rough. Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, 9.5-14 cm long, coriaceous, 3-ribbed from base. Flowers bisexual, in terminal and axillary, pale yellow, 5 mm long, perianth 8 mm, silky, lobes 6. Stamens 9 perfect; staminodes 3. Fruit a berry, 1-2 cm, ellipsoid to oblong-ovoid, dark purple, surrounded by the enlarged perianth.