Much branched. Branches leafy, obtusely angular, ashy, compressed towards the extremities; bark transversely rimose. Leaves elliptical, somewhat narrowed or subacuminate at the apex, mucronulate, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, rigidly coriaceous, glossy, 1–3 1/2 by 1/2–1 1/2 in., margins recurved; lateral veins about 10 pairs, slender; petiole 1/8– 1/4 in.; stipules caudate-apiculate from an oval connate base, 1/4 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, 2/3 in. long when expanded, on short bracteolate pedicels, in dense hemispherical trichotomous terminal petiolate panicles of 1 1/2–2 in. diam.; common peduncle 1/2–1 1/2 in., bracteate; bracteoles decussate rigid ovate-lanceolate, the uppermost at the base of the calyx. Calyx 1/15 in. long, glabrous, campanulate, bracteolate; limb concave; lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla-tube slender; limb 1/3– 3/8 in. diam.; lobes oval, rounded, obsoletely puberulous inside near the base. Anthers 1/6 in. long. Style exserted by the length of the anthers, bifid at the tip.
