Shrubs, or small trees, to ca. 10 m, ? glabrous. Leaves elliptic to slightly obovate, acuminate, obtuse basally, to 18 cm long and 6 cm wide, chartaceous, glabrous; petioles ca. 5-15 mm long, weakly perfoliate, sparsely glandular in the axils. Inflorescences corymbose, generally much branched, open. Flowers with the pedicels 10-20 mm long; calyx lobes ovate, ca. 1.5-2 mm long, bear-ing several squamellae within; corolla white, the tube 12-15 mm long, slightly constricted at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes narrowly obovate-dolabri-form, ca. 18-21 mm long; stamens half-exserted, the anthers ca. 2.2 mm long, tinged with blue-green; nectary annular, adnate. "Follicles narrowly ovoid ellipsoid, 3-6 cm. long, 1.25-1.8 cm. broad, narrowly acuminate, longitudinally striate, otherwise smooth."
Moist or dry thickets, often in sandy places, frequently in more open,secondary growth formations, at elevations up to 700 metres.
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