A glabrous shrub with terete extremities. Leaves firmly membranous or coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, rather obtusely acuminate, narrowed to the cuneate or but slightly rounded base, entire, glabrous, midrib prominent beneath, subdistant lateral veins moderately so, reticulation faint, 3–6 in. long, 1–2 1/4 in. broad; petiole 1–2 lines. Flowers 1/4– 1/3 in. long, pedicellate, in 3–10-flowered axillary fascicles or exceptionally subsolitary; pedicels glabrous, shorter than or equalling the flowers. Calyx glabrous; lobes ovate-rotundate. Filaments compressed below, subulate or filiform above. Ovary glabrous.