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Corolla elongate-lanceolate, beaked in bud; tube cylindrical, two thirds to one eighth the length of the linear-lanceolate lobes, with a ring of deflexed hairs or glabrous within save at base; throat glabrous.
Fruit fairly large, didymous when 2 pyrenes develop, but unilateral and oblique when 1 is aborted, smooth or irregularly ribbed; presumably ± globose in V. gossweileri.
Leaves opposite, somewhat coriaceous, hairy or velvety tomentose; stipules thick, triangular, ± joined into a sheath at the base, long caudate at the apex.
Flowers large and conspicuous, ± thick, in opposite simple to much branched many-flowered axillary cymes; bracts fairly conspicuous.
Ovary 2-locular (5-locular in V. gossweileri), each locule with a solitary pendulous ovule.
Calyx limb-tube ± obsolete; lobes erect, triangular to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong.
Style slender, long-exserted; pollen presenter cylindrical.
Stamens inserted at the throat; anthers exserted, linear.
Shrubs or small trees, with mostly stiff thick branches.
