Quite glabrous except the inflorescence. Young branches terete or slightly compressed near the tip, greyish-brown. Leaves oblong, acutely acuminate, subacute at the base, 3–5 in. long, 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. broad, papery, glossy; secondary nerves 9–11 on each side, straight, slightly oblique, finely channelled above, prominent below; reticulation rather loose, raised below; petiole very slender, 4–6 lin. long. Panicles lateral and terminal, rather numerous and unequal, the longest sometimes nodding, 1/2–2 in. long (excluding the peduncle), more or less linear in outline; peduncle hardly any or up to 3/4 in. long, compressed, glabrous like the lower part of the rhachis; flowers often in clusters at the nodes of the rhachis or the ends of the lowest branches; bracts minute, caducous; pedicels very delicately ferrugineous-tomentose, up to 1 lin. long. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals elliptic, obtuse, thin, very delicately pubescent, with small glands within alternating with them. Corolla-tube inflated, 2 lin. long; delicately tomentose above the middle without; throat-scales tubercle-shaped, 1/4 lin. long; lobes broad-oblong, 2 lin. long. Anthers 1 1/2 lin. long.The intracalycular glands do not seem to be always distinct or constant. Follicles subcylindric from an attenuated base, obtuse, 11 in. long, 3/4 in. in diam. Seed-plumes slightly greyish, about 1 1/2 in. long.
