A tall, twining (?), glabrous shrub; young branches reddish-brown, when dry grooved and wrinkled, with numerous brown lenticels. Leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate (acumen linear, up to 5 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad), subacute at the base, 3 to over 6 in. long, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous; midrib flat or slightly sunk above, distinctly prominent below; secondary nerves distant, about 7 on each side, connected by bold arches, which are rather distant from the margins, slightly channelled above, raised below; veins inconspicuous; petiole about 3 lin. long, channelled. Flowers sessile in dense, sessile, axillary and terminal, almost glabrous, many-flowered clusters; bracts minute. Calyx 1/2 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute, ciliolate. Corolla sweet-scented, glabrous without, about 5–6 lin. long in bud; buds slender; tube pink, spindle-shaped, widest just below the middle, 2–3 1/2 lin. long, scantily hairy within; lobes white, linear, obtuse, as long as the tube. Filaments slender, 1/4 lin. long, inserted at 1/3 from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2/5 lin. long. Ovary subglobose, truncate, minutely hairy at the top; style very short; stigma subcylindric, deeply bifid, with a ring of minute hairs at the base, scarcely reaching the anthers. Ovules 2-seriate, 3–4 in each series. Fruit ovoid, orange-coloured, much smaller than that of Landolphia florida (ex Hallier).