Flowering branches robust, covered when young with long reddish-brown hairs, at length glabrescent. Leaves more or less elliptic, long acuminate, rounded or almost sinuate at the base, 4–6 in long, 2–1 1/3 in. broad, midrib hairy; secondary nerves about 12 on each side, rather conspicuous. Panicle corymbose, almost sessile at the end of the branches or in branch-forks, dense, hairy; bracts subacute, persistent; pedicels extremely short. Sepals oblong or ovate. Corolla-tube fusiform, finely pubescent in the exserted part; limb 3–4 lin. in diam.; lobes falciform, subacute, about half as long as the exserted part of the corolla-tube. Stamens inserted at the middle of the tube; filaments hairy at the base; anthers emarginate at the apex. Ovary tubinate, glabrous below, velvety above; stigma as in L. owariensis. Fruit subglobose, almost 2 1/2 in. long, 2 in. wide, deep yellow, turning black when dry and covering itself with a blueish bloom, smooth. Seeds about 12, irregular, angular, 7 1/2–10 lin. long.
