A small tree of 5–9 ft. high, puberulous at the extremities. Wood compact, heavy, very strong, durable, yellowish; trunk 1 1/2–2 ft. diameter. Ramifications ternate. Leaves ternate, oval or obovate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, subsessile, thinly coriaceous, shining above, glabrous except little hairy depressions in the axils of the 8–10 pairs of lateral veins beneath, ranging up to 8 by 4 1/2 in.; stipules short, rounded, connate at the base, intra-petiolar. Flowers 1 1/2–3 in. long, aromatic, yellow, trumpet-shaped, decamerous or 6–11-merous, terminal or terminating short lateral branches, sessile or subsessile. Calyx-tube ovoid, rather exceeding the ovary, hairy inside; limb often irregularly lobed; lobes obtuse, glabrous, mostly 1/5– 3/5 in. long, apparently starting from below the apex of the truncate tube. Corolla-tube glabrous outside or nearly so; throat thinly bearded; limb 1 1/2–3 in. diameter; lobes rounded. Style shortly pubescent, stout; stigma 6–11-lobed. Ovary 1-celled; placentas 6–11. Fruit as large as a common egg, somewhat flattened, green; pericarp woody; seeds plentiful, flattened.
