A small tree that to a height of usually 3 meters and sometimes more. Leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 13 to 18 centimeters long, and 6 to 8 centimeters wide, with pointed tip, unequal, obtuse or rounded base, and with entire and hairy margins. Flowers are creamy-white, pendulous, musklike in odor, and very large and showy being 18 to 22 centimeters long; calyx is tubular, entire and spathelike; the corolla-tube is cylindrical and has very long lobes.

Bureau of Plant Industry

A poultice is made of the leaves and is applied externally to accelerate suppuration of boils and to relieve pain.