A shrub with glabrous green branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate (acumen up to 10 lin. long), acute at the base, up to 10 in. by not quite 3 in., thin; lateral nerves 7–8 on each side, ascending; petiole terete, deeply channelled, about 5 lin. long. Panicles as long as the leaves, very shortly rusty-pubescent, lax, with long slender branches; pedicels as long as the flowers or slightly longer. Perianth 3/4 lin. in diam., wide-turbinate, hairy within and without; segments ovate, under 1/2 lin. long, with long hairs at the base of the filaments. Extrorse stamens with a suborbicular 2-lobed gland on each side of the base; staminodes reduced to ovate glands. Ovary long-hairy, passing into a short conoid style.