Branches terete, covered with pale yellow stellate hairs, unarmed or with a few recurved compressed spines. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subcordate at the base, 4–6 in. long, about 2 in. wide, entire or subrepand, stellately hairy on both surfaces, yellowish-green above, paler beneath; petiole 7–8 lin. long. Cymes racemose, simple or bifid; flowers large, fragrant, lowest alone fertile, the other 4–5 male; peduncle, pedicels, outside of calyx and corolla covered with pale yellow stellate tomentum. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., unarmed in the sterile flowers; lobes 5, ovate-cuneate, cuspidate. Corolla 1 in. in diam., lilac, plicate; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, reflexed, hairy on the midrib inside. Stamens 5, equal, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; filaments dilated at the base, subcomplanate, up to 1 lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, 1/4 in. long, dull yellow. Ovary ovoid, clothed with rusty tomentum; style declinate, subterete, tomentose except at the apex; stigma capitate. Berry depressed, globose, yellow, glabrous, size of a pigeon's egg.
