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Leaves tough, glossy, glabrous, not darkening on drying; lamina 2·5–7·7 x 1·5–4·5 cm., elliptic to ovate, the base acute or rounded, the apex obtuse to acuminate.
Corolla white inside, pink or pale green outside; tube 19–33 mm. long, lobes 7–11, 10–24 mm. long, linear to narrowly elliptic, with apex acute to acuminate.
Flowers terminal on short lateral branches, solitary or in 3–11–flowered cymes, very sweetly scented; pedicels 3–12 mm. long.
Petioles 6–15 mm. long, articulated below the middle, sometimes with a line of pubescence on the upper surface.
Stamens inserted in the top half of corolla tube; filaments up to 3 mm. long, anthers 3·5–5 mm. long.
Young stems glabrous or puberulous and soon glabrescent, older stems with smooth bark.
Calyx glabrous; tube 2–3 mm. long, lobes 5–7, 2–10 mm. long, subulate.
Style either exserted from tube or 1/3–1/2 as long, with bifid stigma.
Fruit 1–2–lobed, lobes 10–14 mm. long when dry, ellipsoid.
Scandent shrub to 2 m. or more.
Venation inconspicuous.
Acarodomatia absent.
