A graceful and rather weak but tall climber with drooping branches, 4–7 ft. long; young branches minutely pubescent, hairs rather persistent. Leaves elliptic-oblong, shortly and acutely acuminate, rounded at the base, 1–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, subcoriaceous, minutely pubescent on the nerves in a very young state, soon glabrous except in the nerve-axils, secondary nerves 4–5, rarely 6; transverse veins rather inconspicuous; petiole 1 lin. long. Cymes in terminal or in terminal and lateral slender raceme-like or pyramidal panicles, minutely pubescent; rhachis and branchlets filiform; bracts lanceolate to subulate, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels up to 1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx minutely pubescent, 1 lin. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, subacute, eglandular. Corolla white, tinged with pink, very sweet-scented, subcampanulate; tube minutely puberulous without, villous in the throat, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; Suprastaminal calli short, ovate; lobes lanceolate from an ovate auriculate base, acuminate, 3–4 lin. long. Anthers reaching beyond the middle of the corolla-tube, 3/4 lin. long, glabrous or very sparingly hairy on the back. Carpels puberulous at the top; style obconic-cylindric, minutely puberulous. Stigma campanulate with a short bifid apex.
