A shrub 6–10 ft. high, with slender stem; young branches densely yellow-tomentose, at length glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, long and acutely acuminate, narrowed at the base, entire, membranous, glabrous above, pilose with short adpressed hairs beneath, with venation prominent beneath, 7–12 in. long, 2–4 in. broad. Flowers 4-merous, dimorphic, white, densely fascicled at the somewhat swollen yellow-tomentose nodes; pedicels as long as the flowers, densely yellow-tomentose. Sepals ovate, broadly imbricate, acute, very densely yellow-silky-villous without, glabrescent within, 2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad. Petals bifid to the base, loosely pilose on both sides, fimbriate, 1/3 as long as the sepals. Filament filiform, equalling or about twice as long as the petals; style 0 or rather long; stigma large, globose. Ovary very densely silky-pilose.
