leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or suborbicular, acute or subacuminate, tomentose, netted-veined; cymes axillary, panicled; calyx-teeth tomentose, bluntish, 4 times shorter than the corolla; stigma obtuse. A tree about 10 feet high, unarmed, with terete and subcompressed, opposite branches. Leaves quite entire, densely clothed with a yellowish tomentum, penninerved, 4–5 inches long, 3–4 inches broad. Stipules large, cuspidate. Cymes shorter than the leaves, tomentose. Calyx subsessile; the teeth acute or bluntish, shorter than the tube. Corolla tomentose, 3 lines long, the lobes glabrous above. Ovary 5-celled, style filiform, equalling the stamens; stigma obtuse. Fruit round, glabrous, an inch in diameter, edible. The variety is nearly allied to V. edulis, Vahl.
