Shrub or small tree to 6 m high, to 10 cm dbh. Bark pale grey to grey-brown, smooth; inner bark pale yellow. Sapwood pale yellow. Branchlets glabrous, with few lenticels. Leaves opposite; petiole 2-7 mm long; blade papery, elliptic, 3-26 by 0.6-10 cm, 2-4 times as long as wide, apex acuminate or caudate, base cuneate, glabrous, 5-20 pairs of secondary veins, curved ascending, tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence 3−15-flowered, 2−16.5 cm long, glabrous to minutely puberulent; peduncle 0.5-8 cm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; pedicels 3-10 mm long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Flowers fragrant. Sepals ovate to oblong, 1.4-4 by 0.7−1.2 mm, 2-8 times as long as wide, apex acute or acuminate; not ciliate, glabrous to sparsely puberulent. Corolla white, in mature bud 9-24 mm long with ovoid head which is 0.2-0.5 of bud length, apex long acuminate; tube twisted or not, 11-23 mm long, 4-8 times as long as sepals; lobes 7-14 by 3-9 mm, 1.2-2.5 times as long as wide; glabrous outside, pubescent around stamen insertion inside. Stamens inserted in upper half of corolla tube; anthers 1.5-4 by 0.5-1 mm. Ovaries 0.5-2 mm long; style and style head 5.3-16 mm long. Fruit obliquely ellipsoid or oblong, longitudinally ridged, sometimes torulose, 2-6 by 0.7-2 cm, apex acuminate, 2-4-seeded. Seeds obliquely ellipsoid, 8-10 by 5-6 mm.
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