Shrubs or small trees, to 8 m tall; branches quadrangular to subterete, glabrous. Petiole 4-15 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying leathery to stiffly papery and rather shiny, lanceolate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, ovate, obovate, or oblong-lanceolate, 4-18 × 2-6 cm, glabrous, base cuneate to acute, apex acuminate or acute to obtuse; secondary veins 5-9 pairs; stipules with sheath portion 0.2-1 mm, truncate, persistent or deciduous by fragmentation, bilobed, lobes linear to narrowly triangular, 0.1-0.5 mm, caducous. Peduncles 1-16 and fascicled or umbellate, 5-35 mm, simple or bearing an umbellate group of pedicels, at base with stipuliform bracts; pedicels when present 5-15 mm. Flowers pedunculate or pedicellate. Calyx glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent; hypanthium portion hemispherical, 1.5-2 mm; limb 1-2 mm, truncate or 4-or 5-denticulate. Corolla white or pale purple, salverform, glabrous outside; tube 14-20 mm; lobes 4 or 5, lanceolate, 7-10 mm, abaxially (i.e., dorsally) ridged at least in bud, acute to obtuse. Drupes subglobose, 8-12 mm in diam., glabrous, smooth. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Sep-Dec.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 8 m tall. The branches are 4 sided. The leaves are narrowly oval and 4-8 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. They taper to the tip and are wedge shaped at the base. The flowers are white or pale purple. The fruit are a flattened round shape. They are 8-12 mm across.
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