A shrub, 15 feet high. Branches ashy. Leaves elliptical, acuminate at both ends, chartaceous, pale at least below when dry, 3–7 by 1–3 in.; lateral veins about 10–11 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 1/5– 1/2 in.; stipules ovate, connate at the base. Flowers 1/2 in. long, in company with the leaves, subsessile or on short obsoletely puberulous pedicels ranging up to 1/8 in., in sessile terminal brachiate hemispherical panicles of about 3 in. diameter; bracts ovate, connate, small; bracteoles filiform, very small, opposite, the uppermost at or below the base of the calyx. Calyx red, 1/15 in. long, glabrate; limb erect, scarcely cup-shaped, truncate or very shortly lobed, with 4 minute teeth. Corolla-tube slender; limb scarcely 1/2 in. diameter; lobes 4, oblong, obtuse, obsoletely puberulous at the base inside. Anthers 1/5 in. long. Style exserted by the length of the anthers.
