a dense shrub, 5–6 ft. high, quite glabrous; branches long, slender, reddish-brown with numerous white lenticels; leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, acute or subobtuse at the base, about 2 in. (in cultivated specimens 3 in.) long, 3/4–1 in. broad, membranous; secondary nerves 6–9 on each side, slender; reticulation rather delicate; petiole 3–4 lin. long; cymes terminal on leafy (in the wild specimens short) branches, usually reduced to a single flower; bracts linear-lanceolate, about 4 lin. long; pedicels up to 4 lin. long; calyx 7–8 lin. long; sepals oblong to lanceolate-oblong, subacute, 2 lin. broad, erect; corolla wide, purplish without, milk-white or creamy within; infra-staminal part of the tube 2 lin. long, supra-staminal part 10 lin. long; lobes ovate, produced into filiform tails, about 6 in. long; throat-scales subulate from a triangular base, 4 lin. long; anthers included, glabrous, 3 lin. long, produced into a fine bristle. null
