Tree to 6 m tall. Leaves: petiole 2.5-8 cm long; blade oblong to elliptic, 10-28 by 5-9 cm, 2-3.5 times as long as wide, apex apiculate, base cuneate, 8-14 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation reticulate. Inflorescence 15-25 cm long, lax, many-flowered; peduncle 5-10 cm long; pedicels 3-6 cm long. Flowers fragrant. Sepals ovate, c. 4 by 3 mm, 1.3 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to rounded, spreading to reflexed. Corolla white, with some pink on lobes; tube 29-33 by 6 mm, 7.2-8.2 times as long as sepals, 3.2-4.1 times as long as lobes, glabrous outside, minutely pubescent at top of tube and throat inside, glabrous below; lobes suborbicular, 8-9 by 8-9 mm, c. 1 times as long as wide, apex rounded to retuse, glabrous outside, pubescent at base inside. Stamens inserted at 5-7 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.2 of tube length; filaments c. 1 mm long; anthers c. 5 by 2 mm. Ovaries 1.5 mm high; style c. 7 mm long; style head c. 3 mm long. Fruit blue, each ellipsoid, c. 6 by 3 by 3 cm, rounded at end.
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