A shrub or small, glabrous tree. Bark grey-brown, smooth. Leaves thinly leathery, glossy green, on 0.6 – 1 cm long petioles, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, (9-) 12 – 20 x (1.5-) 2 – 4.5 (-5) cm, basally ± cuneate or rounded, tapering to the narrowly long acuminate apex, glands indistinct on both sides. Inflorescence a terminal raceme, up to 3 cm long. Flowers c. 6 cm across; pedicel up to 1.5 cm long, bracts and bracteoles fugacious. Calyx tube obconic, gradually contracted below into a poorly defined pseudostalk, c. 1 cm across with 4, persistent, c. 6 mm long and 10 mm wide, orbicular lobes. Petals white, orbicular, c. 1.5 cm long and broad, gland dotted. Stamens numerous, filaments creamy white, up to 4 cm long.; anthers oblong. Fruit fleshy, shortly stalked, broadly depressed-globose, (2.5-) 3 – 4 cm long, up to 5 cm in diam., pale yellow or pinkish , rose-scented. Seed single, c. 2. 5 cm in diam.