A shrub, 12–15 feet high, glabrous in most parts. Branches terete. Leaves elliptical or somewhat obovate, caudate-cuspidate, wedge-shaped at the base, rather glossy, of nearly the same colour on both surfaces, glabrous except slightly hairy tufts in the axils of the 7–9 pairs of lateral veins and occasionally of the tertiary veins, chartaceous, 4–6 1/2 by 1 1/2–2 3/4 in., the uppermost ones (bracts) about 3 by 1 in.; petiole 1/2–1 in.; stipules broadly ovate or truncate, cuspidate, connate at the base, 1/4– 1/3 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, 1/4 in. long, on puberulous ebracteolate pedicels of 1/8– 3/8 in., in rather dense (not divaricately branched) corymbose panicles of 2–3 in. diameter; peduncle 2/3 in. with 2 large foliaceous bracts at the top 3 in. by 1 in. Calyx 1/6 in. long; limb campanulate, 1/8 in. long, cleft, puberulous; lobes shortly ovate, obtuse, keeled. Corolla glabrous outside, pubescent near the throat inside; lobes oblong, 3/8 in. long, reflexed. Anthers narrowly linear, exserted, scarcely as long as the corolla-lobes, at length twisted. Style exserted by 2/5 in., puberulous above; stigma narrowly fusiform, undivided.
