A large tree, with a tall clear trunk, quite glabrous; branches moderately stout, brown or blackish when dry. Leaves in whorls of 4–6, oblanceolate to obovate-cuneate, shortly acuminate or obtuse or retuse, acute or cuneate at the base, 4–7 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/4 in. broad, subcoriaceous when mature, dark above, pale and more or less glaucous beneath; secondary nerves straight, horizontal, prominent on both sides, 30–40 on each side; petiole very short or up to 1/2 in. long. Panicles several from the tops of the branches, compound, loose, many-flowered, greyish, puberulous; peduncle up to 1 1/2 in. long; branches whorled in 2–3 tiers, the lowest 1 1/2 in. long, bearing corymbosely arranged pseudoumbels of 4–7 flowers; bracts small, crowded at the base of the pseudoumbels; pedicels up to 2 1/2 lin. long. Calyx scarcely 1 lin. long, minutely greyish tomentose; segments broadly-ovate, subacuminate. Corolla more or less minutely papillose-tomentose without or glabrescent in the lower part; tube slender, 4–5 1/2 lin. long, scantily pubescent within; limb villous at the mouth; lobes somewhat obliquely ovate, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Anthers 3/4 lin. long. Ovary finely greyish-tomentose except at the base; style (inclusive of the stigma), 4 lin. long.
