Small tree with milky latex, branches very thick, often angular; leaves alternate, simple, large, coriaceous, oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, nerves numerous, horizontal, crowded at the end of branches, glabrous above, grey pubescent beneath, petioles with a gland at the tip; disk absent; carpels-2, distinct; flowers white, fragrant in terminal, peduncled cymes; peduncles and pedicels angular, often stout; small, eglandular within, calyx deeply divided, sepals suborbicular; corolla salver shaped, with narrow, short tube, lobes oblanceolate, white, throat naked, lobes overlapping to the left; stamens-5, epipetalous, included, inserted near the base of corolla tube, anthers free, filaments slender, follicles very rarely developed; ovules many seriate, style short, stigma bilobed; follicles linear, oblong, many seeded; seeds oblong or lanceolate, winged.