Beautiful shrub or undershrub, almost glabrous, branches angular when young, covered with coarse brown pubescence; leaves elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, nerves beneath often hairy; shortly petiolate, stipulus small, simple or 2-fid; flowers in terminal cymes, glabrous or sparsely appressed hairy; bract subulate; calyx caducous, 5-lobed, adnate to ovary, one lobe enlarged into broad, leaf like, obtuse, pale yellow structure; corolla yellow or orange, salver shaped, tube very slender, yellowish, silky hairy near the mouth, lobes very short, acute; stamens 5, included, inserted on the throat of corolla, anthers linear, filaments short; ovary 2-celled, style filiform, stigma-2, linear, ovules many on peltate, fleshy placenta; berries or drupe, indehiscent, glabrous, globose or obovoid, many seeded, each with a brood aereole; seeds minute.