Glabrous in most parts, shining. Branchlets smooth. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acutely acuminate at both ends, chartaceous, pale and glaucescent beneath except the 8–9 slender pairs of lateral veins, 6–9 by 1 1/2–2 1/2 in., the uppermost (bracts) 4 by 1 in.; petiole 1/2–2 in.; stipules subtruncate, connate, apiculate, glabrous, 1/8– 1/6 in. Flowers tetramerous, 1/3 in. long, on minutely puberulous ebracteate pedicels of 1/8– 1/3 in., in globose sessile panicles of about 4 in. diameter. Calyx 1/5 in. long, turbinate; limb 1/6 in. long, minutely puberulous, deeply lobed; lobes ovate, puberulous, ciliolate, obtusely keeled, 1/8 in. long. Corolla glabrous outside, pubescent inside above the middle of the tube; lobes ovate-oblong, reflexed, mucronulate, 1/3– 3/8 in. long. Anthers narrowly linear, about 1/4 in. long, at length twisted, somewhat apiculate, exserted; filaments short. Style exserted by 5/8 in., puberulous above, stigma narrowly fusiform, emarginate.
