A dense nearly glabrous bush, 3–4ft. high. Branches ashy, smooth, terete and glabrous except the somewhat compressed puberulous extremities. Leaves elliptical, obtuse at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate base, glabrous, shining, rather thinly coriaceous, slightly paler beneath, 1 1/2–2 by 3/5–1 in.; lateral veins about 4 on each side, inconspicuous; stipules short, apiculate. Flowers hexamerous, 1/3– 3/8 in. long, a few together, subsessile, in very short axillary clusters; epicalyx truncate, puberulous, with opposite apiculate teeth. Calyx puberulous; tube exceeding the ovary, truncate, with 6 narrow teeth. Corolla salver-shaped, glabrous outside; throat thinly pubescent; lobes ovate, acute. Anthers exserted, narrowly linear, not apiculate. Style glabrous.
