Climbing ± hairy shrubs or small erect shrubs. Leaves petiolate, opposite, mostly clustered at the apices of the shoots; stipules rather large, interpetiolar, ovate-lanceolate, thickly scarious, striate, imbricate with the leaves at the shoot-apices, at length deciduous. Flowers scented, 5–6-merous, shortly pedicellate, hermaphrodite, several-many in terminal sessile clusters. Calyx-tube ellipsoid or obconic; tubular part of limb short; lobes subulate or linear-lanceolate, erect, persistent. Corolla white, cream, yellow, pink or red, ± salver-shaped, with a narrow tube, or funnel-shaped, glabrescent to pubescent outside, glabrous inside save at base which is densely hairy or glabrous at base with rest of tube pubescent; lobes elliptic to rounded, shortly clawed, spreading, contorted. Anthers just exserted between the corolla-lobes or included; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 1-locular; ovules numerous on 2(–?4) parietal placentas; style long-exserted or included, thick; stigma large, globose, grooved. Fruit subglobose, many-seeded.
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