Wrightia religiosa Benth. & Hook.F.

Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall. Branchlets puberulent, soon becoming glabrous and sparsely lenticellate. Leaves: petiole 1.5-4 mm long; blade papery, elliptic or oblong, 1.2-8.2 by 0.6-3.3 cm, 2.2-4.2 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, rarely to rounded, base cuneate, puberulent on midrib beneath and sometimes on midrib above, or completely glabrous, blade punctate beneath and sometimes above, 3-8 pairs of secondary veins, ascending, often obscure, tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence 1.7-4.2 cm long; glabrous or sparsely puberulent; pedicels 8-30 mm long, very delicate; flowers pendulous. Sepals ovate or oblong, 1-2.5 by 0.7-1 mm, 1.9-2.4 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous, ciliate; colleters small and narrow. Corolla white; subrotate; sometimes double in cultivated plants; tube 2.1-4.2 mm long; lobes 4.8-9.8 by 1.9-2.7 mm, 2.1-2.6 times as long as wide, obovate, apex rounded; puberulent-papillose on lobes outside and inside, glabrous on tube outside and inside; corona absent. Stamens inserted at corolla mouth, strongly exserted from tube; filaments 1.5-2.5 mm long; anthers 3.8-4 by 0.7-0.8 mm, pubescent within and without. Gynoecium of 2 free carpels united into a common style, ovaries 0.8-1.1 mm high, glabrous, of 2 separate carpels; style and style head 5.7-8.3 mm long. Fruit of paired follicles; 8.5-17.5 cm by 3.3-4.5 mm; glabrous; not lenticellate. Seeds linear; 7-8.6 by 1.1-1.3 mm; coma 3-3.5 cm long.