Large shrub with densely pubescent, drooping branchlets; leaves opposite, about 2-3 cm long, rhomboid or subrhomboid, obtuse or acute, coarsely crenate-dentate, undulate margins, base truncate or sub-cordate, glabrous above more or less pubescent beneath; petioles about 2-3 cm long, pubescent; flowers 10-12, in axillary, cymose panicles; bracts obovate or lanceolate, acute, leafy; calyx divided up to middle, sepals-5, ovate or triangular, sinuate-serrate, acute or acuminate, puberulous, often enlarged in fruit; corolla creamy, white, minutely pubescent, tube about 2-3 cm long with short lobes-5, elliptic, obtuse; stamens 4, very long, much exserted, didynamous, anther cells-2, parallel; ovary imperfectly 4-celled, 4-ovuled, style filiform, shortly bifid; drupe obovoid, slightly succulent, separating into 4-pyrenes; seeds oblong.