Shrub or small tree up to 3 m high, glabrous in all parts; branchlets slender, divaricate, bark pale green. Leaves membranous, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 7-12 cm long and 2-5-3-5 cm broad, cuneate at the base, apex acute to acuminate; secondary nerves 7-10 on each side, rather indistinct, widely spreading; petiole 5-10 mm long, channelled above with small tooth-like glands in the axils. Inflorescence cymose, terminal, few-flowered, glabrous; peduncle slender, 1-1-7 cm long; bracts oblong, 4-4-5 mm long, rounded at the apex, caducous; pedicels 1-1-4 cm long. Flowers white, fragrant, fairly large, up to 2 • 5 cm in diameter. Calyx large, imbricate, divided almost to the base; sepals broadly oblong, 8-9 mm long, rounded at the apex, usually reflexed, with several minute glands at the base of each sepal within. Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous; tube 1-5 cm long, at first narrowly cylindrical and 2 mm in diameter for 1 cm, then widening abruptly to a broader, cylindrical portion enclosing the stamens, 5 mm long and 3-3-5 mm in diameter, not thickened nor constricted at the throat; lobes ovate to broadly elliptical, 1-4-1 -6 cm long and 8-10 mm broad, rounded at the apex, delicately veined, overlapping to the left, margin entire. Stamens 5, inserted above the middle in the enlarged part of the tube, subsessile, filaments extended as raised longitudinal ridges in the tube; anthers lanceolate, acuminate, shortly sagittate, 3-5 mm long, shortly mucronate, the apices nearly reaching the corolla throat. Disc obscure consisting of an annular thickening. Ovary of two almost free carpels, glabrous; style filiform, somewhat compressed, broader towards the apex, 9-10 mm long; stigma subglobose with a narrow fringe at the base and a mucronate, bifid apex 0-5 mm long; ovules numerous in each locule. Fruit baccate, two-lobed, 2-5 cm long and 2-2-5 cm in diameter, several-seeded. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 6-7 mm long and 3-3-5 mm in diameter; testa brown, longitudinally striated and rough.
