Shrubs, to ca 3 m, the younger branches softly-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic, acuminate, entire, the bases obtuse, to 24 cm long and 9 cm wide, + rigid, slightly falcate, ? glabrous and grey-green above, sparsely pubescent be-neath; petioles ca 2-10 mm long. Inflorescences cymes, loosely-flowered, the peduncles softly-pubescent. Flowers perfect, + sessile; buds clavate; calyx cupu-late, the tube ca 4 mm long, glabrous, 3-4-lobed, the lobes deltoid, ca 1.5-2 mm long; corolla salverform, white, the tube ca 4-4.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes oblong, ca 5 mm long and ca 1.8 mm wide; stamens 5, exserted, the filaments ca 3-4 mm long, pubescent basally, the anthers ca 2 mm long; ovary ovoid, the style ca 4 mm long at anthesis. Fruit obliquely ellipsoidal, 10-12 mm high, apex acute.
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