Shrubs, rarely scandent, glabrous in all parts. Leaves simple, glaucous, usually about 3 times as long as broad, lanceolate, lanceolate-elliptic, lanceolate-ovate, slightly narrowed to a rounded mucronate apex, or acute, sometimes long-acuminate, 3-6 • 5 cm long, 0 • 7-2 • 5 cm broad, narrowing gradually to the 3- (or more) nerved base and then abruptly narrowed into a petiolule-like basal portion; petiole short, 1-5 mm long but with the cuneate leaf-base appearing about 1 cm long, articulate at the apex but articu­lation often appearing to be about midway, depending on the length of the leaf-base. Inflorescence terminal on ultimate branchlets, occasionally also in axils of upper pair of leaves, normally 3-fiowered; bracts setaceous, usually about 1 cm long; pedicels 3-12 mm long. Calyx with usually 5-7 subulate lobes; lobes as long as or longer than the tube, sinuses rounded. Corolla white, fragrant; tube usually 2-2-5 cm long; lobes 6-8 in number, 1-7-2-5 cm long, up to 5 mm broad. Fruit black, a twin berry, one often aborted.