A bushy or straggling shrub, sometimes scrambling or climbing; branches terete, pubescent, glabrescent; ultimate twigs 1-5 cm long, rarely longer, densely or persistently pubescent to tomentulose with spreading or reflexed hairs. Leaves very variable in size and shape, from ovate-lanceolate or elliptic to ovate or ovate-oblong, usually 1-4 cm long and 0-4-1-8 cm broad, pubescent on both surfaces, without acarodomatia; petioles pubescent, 3-8 mm long, articulated near the base (rarely higher up). Inflorescence terminal on short ultimate twigs, usually 1-flowered (occasionally 2-3-flowered); pedicels pubescent, usually short, 1-7 mm long, occasionally up to 1 cm long. Calyx pubescent pubescence variable, hairs short or long and curly; tube 2-3 mm long; lobes 6-13, subulate with U-shaped sinuses, 2 • 5-6 mm long. Corolla white (buds red, fide Comins), fragrant; tube 2-2-5 cm long; lobes 7-12. 1-3-1-7 cm long, 3-5 mm broad. Stamens inserted in upper half of the tube, included, anthers up to 5 mm long, apiculate. Ovary subquadrate, compressed, about 2x1-5 mm; style 2-lobed at apex. Fruit a twin berry (one sometimes aborting), narrowly oblong, black, those seen about 1 cm long and 6 mm broad.