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Shrubs or small trees, 1.5-10 m tall. Branchlets lenticellate. Petiole 2-8 cm; leaf blade greenish abaxially and dark green adaxially, ovate-elliptic, triangular-ovate, or ovate, 5-16 2-13 cm, papery, base broadly cuneate, truncate, or rarely cordate, margin entire or rarely undulate, apex acuminate, veins 3-5 pairs. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, lax, corymbose cymes, dichotomous, 8-18 cm; peduncle 3-6 cm; bracts elliptic, deciduous. Flowers fragrant. Calyx greenish, becoming purple, deeply 5-lobed; lobes triangular-lanceolate to ovate, acute. Corolla white or pinkish, ca. 2 cm, tube slender; lobes oblong, 5-10 3-5 mm. Style shorter than stamens, both exserted. Drupes blue-purple, subglobose, ca. 6-8 mm in diam.
A small tree. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 4.5-6 m high. It forms suckers. It has sparse branches and the lower branches droop. The leaves are thin and downy. The flowers are in clusters at the branch tips. They are white but turn pink. The fruit are small and blue. They are cupped in enlarged red calyces.
