From a shrub of 3–4 feet to a small bushy tree. Leaves oval-oblong or narrowly elliptical, more or less acuminate or acute, narrowed at the base sometimes very shortly so or rarely (especially the uppermost ones which are also smaller) rounded, chartaceous, variable in size, in some specimens ranging up to 9 by 2 1/2 in. besides the petiole, which ranges up to 2/3 in.; lateral veins numerous, slender, spreading; stipules connate below, ovate, apiculate, keeled at least towards the apex, 1/8– 1/4 in. long. Flowers about 1 in. long when expanded, fragrant, on rather slender pedicels ranging up to 3/8 in., in lax trichotomously branched pedunculate hemispherical terminal panicles of 2–8 in. diameter; common peduncle 1–2 in.; bracteoles small, opposite, ovate, acute, at the base of each ramification of the inflorescence, the uppermost at the base of the calyx. Calyx red, 1/12 in. long, ovoid; teeth short, broad, obtuse, sub-connivent. Corolla white, tinged with pink; tube slender, lobes 1/4– 1/2 in. long, obovate-oblong, obtusely pointed, more or less pubescent towards the base inside or obsoletely so. Anthers about 1/4– 3/8 in. long, exserted. Style exserted by the length of the corolla-lobes, at length bilobed above. Fruit 1/4 in. long, 3/8 in. diameter, didymous, red.
