A glabrous shrub, 15 ft. high; branches slender, pallid, or the youngest blackish when dry. Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or subacuminate, long attenuate and acute or the lower rounded at the base, 5–8 in. long, 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. broad, papery; secondary nerves 9–14 on each side, very oblique, gently curved; petiole up to 5 lin. long (then the leaf-base always acute) or none. Inflorescences geminate from the young branch-forks, umbelliform, few-flowered, sometimes nodding; peduncle slender, 1 1/2–3 in. long; bracts oblong, caducous; pedicels slender, 6–12 lin. long. Calyx subcampanulate, 7–8 lin. long, with a transverse zone of scattered glands about 1 1/2 lin. above the base; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, spreading or reflexed, about as long as the tube. Corolla yellow; tube stout, constricted at the middle and mouth, scarcely 6 lin. long, finely tomentose on the broad filamental ridges, and delicately papillose below; lobes obliquely obovate, subacuminate, almost 1 in. long. Stamens inserted above the middle; anthers 3 lin. long, tips shortly exserted, tails long. Disc annular, surrounding the ovary to almost half their height. Style 3 1/2 lin. long. Berries “ovoid, pulp yellow” (Schweinfurth).
