An erect, smooth shrub 1.5 to 2 meters in height. Leaves are somewhat crowded on the ultimate twigs, often yellowish green, oblong-ovate, 5 to 10 centimeters long, entire, and pointed at both ends. Flowers are terminal or axillary, solitary or in pairs, shortly stalked, and fragrant; calyx is green, ovoid, 6 millimeters long, and 5-toothed; corolla-tube is about 4.5 centimeters long, slender, and somewhat straw-colored; the limb is white, soon turning yellowish, oblique, subequally 5-lobed, and about 5 centimeters in diameter. Fruit is rounded and about 1.5 centimeters in diameter, with a yellow, somewhat fleshy pericarp and numerous seeds.

Astringent and tonic (fruit).

Bureau of Plant Industry

The fruit is used as a syrup in chronic diarrhea.