A shrub, 6–8 feet high, hispid on the branches, petioles, leaves, calyces, etc., with dull-tawny hairs. Leaves elliptical or somewhat obovate, acuminate or cuspidate, wedge-shaped at the base, with scattered short hispid hairs above, more densely hispid beneath especially on the midrib and on the 13–15 pairs of lateral veins, chartaceous, 5–11 by 1 2/3–3 2/3 in.; petiole 1/3–1 in. Flowers tetramerous, 3/4– 5/6 in. long when expanded exclusive of the style, on short hispid bracteolate pedicels, in rather dense sessile terminal subglobose branched cymes of about 5 in. diameter, bracteoles linear-subulate, like the calyx-lobes. Calyx nearly the length of the corolla-tube, green, deeply lobed; lobes erect. Corolla glabrous throughout, membranous, white; lobes 2/3 in. long, ovate-oblong, apiculate, spreading, equalling the tube. Anthers scarcely 1/2 in. long; filaments 1/5 in. long. Disk glabrous. Ovary short, turbinate, 2-celled; style exserted by 1 1/2 in., glabrous, rather tapering upwards, undivided; ovules solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. Fruit nearly 1/2 in. diameter; endocarp papery; seed 1/3 in. diameter.
