A small tree, with densely pubescent branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or oblong, 1–2 in. long, acute, entire, rounded or cuneate at the base, thinly pubescent above, densely pubescent and grey beneath. Cymes dense, terminal, many-flowered; pedicels very short, densely pubescent; bracts subulate. Calyx densely pubescent, 1/16 in. long; teeth short, obtuse. Corolla-tube rather longer than the calyx; lobes ovate, obtuse, shorter than the tube. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes; filaments hairy at the base.