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Inflorescences terminal panicles of lax dichasial cymes; panicles up to 6 cm long and 8 cm wide (in the Mozambican plants seen); cymes c. 9-flowered, and also some additional depauperate axillary cymes on short branchlets along the branches (in Mozambican plants); peduncles 1–3 cm long; pedicels up to 1.7 cm long; bracteoles setiform.
Leaves opposite, petiolate; lamina 1.5–13 × 0.8–11.7 cm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, acuminate or rounded and apiculate at the apex, rounded subcordate or broadly cuneate at the base, the lowermost cordate, entire, slightly fleshy (but membranous when dry), densely and minutely punctate; petiole 0.7–7 cm long, slender.
A glabrous, rarely puberulous, much branched shrub 1.2–5 m high or a tree 3–9 m tall; branches ± pendulous, cylindrical, fissured, pale greyish or straw-coloured in old parts; branchlets 4-angled, dark, with characteristic raised persistent petiole-bases, lenticellate.
Calyx dull purplish at base; tube 8–12(20?) × 4 mm, cylindrical, glabrous; lobes 2.5–9 mm long, triangular or ovate, distinctly shorter than the tube, becoming 12 mm long in fruit.
Corolla white or creamy, pleasantly scented; tube 2.5–4 cm long; lobes 8–12.5 mm long, subequal.
Stamens c. 2 cm long; filaments and style reddish or mauve above; anthers red-brownish.
Fruit 1–1.7 cm long and wide, black, shiny.
