Small trees or shrubs. Branchlets yellow-brown villous when very young. Leaves apically clustered. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 7 mm; petiole short, almost absent or 5-12 mm, gray pubescent; leaf blade oblanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate-elliptic, 15-30 × 4-7 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 14-16 on each side of midrib, base attenuate, apex acuminate or obtusely acute. Inflorescence slender, racemose or paniculate, axillary, pendulous. Epicalyx lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 7 mm, as long as pedicels. Calyx pink, purple below middle, sparsely stellate villous, tube campanulate, lobes elliptic-lanceolate, ca. 8 × 3 mm, ca. 3 × as long as calyx tube. Androgynophore slender, curved, ca. 4.5 mm. Ovary globose, densely tomentose; style reflexed. Fruit stipe ca. 3 cm; follicle red-brown, ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 2 cm, abaxially densely puberulent, both ends attenuate. Seeds brown, globose, ca. 1 cm in diam. Fl. Apr.
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A shrub or small tree. The young branches are yellow and hairy. Leaves are clustered near the ends of branches. The leaf stalk is short. The leaves are narrowly sword shaped and 15-30 cm long by 4-7 cm wide. They are papery and smooth. There are 14-16 veins on each side of the main vein. The flowering shoots are slender and hang down in the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a red-brown follicle 8 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are hairy. The seeds are round and brown. They are 1 cm across.
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