Erect much-branched shrub to 3 m. tall. Branchlets rather slender, very finely pubescent, length of internodes 2-4 × diam. Lvs wide-spreading to deflexed, 2-3 cm. × 3-4 mm., narrow-lanceolate, upper surface ± shining, undersurface dull with ∞ stomata; lf-bud with long narrow sinus, the lamina-base cuneately narrowed into short petiole; lamina glab., acute, entire, margins us. with minute hairs towards base. Infls lateral, compound, with several branches of first order and us. some of second order, together overtopping terminal lf-bud in broad corymb; peduncle much < lvs, slightly pubescent. Pedicels c. 3 mm. long, > narrow bracts. Calyx-lobes c. 1·5 mm. long, obtuse to subacute, ciliolate, anterior lobes free for most of their length. Corolla white, tube c. 4 mm. long, lobes < tube, rounded. Capsule 4-5 × 3 mm., ± acute, glab.

n = 40

n = 40 bivalents

2n = 80