Beautiful, large, deciduous, glabrous tree with horizontal ly spreading branches; leaves shortly petioled, opposite, large, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, entire, penninerved shining above, pubescent beneath; stipules interpeliolar, lanceolate, acute caducous; flowers bisexual, pentamerous, in solitary, globose, terminal, shortly peduncled heads, scented at night; bracts minute, bracteoles absent; calyx 5-lobed, imbricate, tubular, persistent or deciduous; corolla funnel shaped, tube long, throat glabrous, orange with white stigmas; stamens 5, inserted on the throat of corolla, filaments glabrous, short, anthers dorsifixed; ovary 2-celled below, 4-celled above, ovules numerous on 2, bifid placentae, style exserted, filiform, stigma spindle shaped or fusiform, fruits confluent into globose, fleshy mass of many, few seeded, coriaceous pyrenes; seeds minute.