A rather pale shrub, 10 feet high. Branchlets compressed or angular, shortly pubescent. Leaves elliptical, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, glabrate above, puberulous at least on the principal veins beneath, 9–12 by 3 1/2–4 1/2 in., or the uppermost (bracts) about 3 by 1/2 in.; lateral veins about 9–10 pairs; petiole 2/3–1 in., puberulous; stipules broadly ovate, apiculate, 3/8 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, 1/3 in. long, on puberulous ebracteolate pedicels of 1/10– 1/5 in. or less, in a repeatedly branched brachiate sessile panicle of 4–6 in. Calyx 1/6 in. long, puberulous or subglabrous; limb deciduous, deeply lobed; lobes lanceolate or ovate, 1/10– 1/8 in. long, subacute. Corolla white, glabrous outside, pubescent inside about the middle of the robust tube; lobes linear or oblong, subapiculate, reflexed, half as long again as the tube. Anthers exserted, reflexed, 3/8 in. long, narrowly linear, apiculate; filaments 1/10 in. Style exserted by 1 in., minutely pubescent or glabrate except the puberulous fusiform emarginate stigma. Fruit (perhaps immature) 1/4 in. diameter.
