Small shrub. Branchlets obtusangular by de-current leaf-cushions, erect, stiff, tips with short spreading hairs, older parts glabrous, early covered with greyish cork. Leaves elliptic-or oblong-ovate, sometimes suborbicular, apex blunt, base ± rounded, coriaceous, firm, initially finely pubescent, finally glabrous, rather shining, laxly gland-dotted beneath, entire, margin cartilaginous, sometimes slightly recurved, 1(-2) by 0.6-0.9(-1.2) cm, midrib and c. 3 pairs of curved-ascending nerves a little sulcate above, ± obscure beneath, reticulation invisible; petiole thickish, pubescent, 2(-3) mm. Flowers solitary or rarely in twos in the upper axils. Pedicels robust, angular, rather densely set with whitish spreading short hairs as is the calyx, 1.2-1.5 cm by 1 mm, with 2 ovate-acuminate bracts (3 mm). Calyx tube broad-cylindric, base obtuse or rounded, 5-6 by 3-4 mm, limb somewhat spreading, 3 mm high, 5-lobed to 2/3, glabrescent. Corolla cylindric, a little narrowed towards the base, slightly 5-angled, fleshy, probably red, at both sides initially subdensely clad with spreading, whitish, rather short hairs except the ± glabrous base, subglabrescent, 3.5-4 cm by 5-6 mm including the finally reflexed narrow-deltoid lobes, c. 4 mm. Stamens c. 2.8 cm; filaments c. 1.5 cm, pubescent in the middle third; anther-cells but slightly granular, c. 5 mm; tubules rather wide, 8-9 mm, opening by slits more than halfway. Style slender, glabrous, finally exserted. Disk glabrous.
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