A small tree with rugose, lenticillate, greyish bark. Leaves glabrous, subcoriaceous, oblong, tapering at the base into a very short petiole, abruptly acuminate, minutely serrulate, 2–3 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. wide. Stipules caducous. Flowers numerous, shortly pedicellate, in dense axillary and terminal much-branched panicles not greatly exceeding the leaves in length. Peduncles and pedicels puberulous. Bracts setaceous, deciduous. Flower-tubes turbinate, rather downy. Sepals 5, leathery, downy, triangular, pointed. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, 2–3 times longer than the sepals, rather downy. Glands small. Stamens 5, about half the length of the petals. Ovary pilose; ovules numerous, pendulous from the upper ends of 3–5 parietal placentas; style cylindrical, as long as or longer than the stamens, dividing into 5 recurved stigmatic branches.
