Glabrous except for the inflorescence and flowers shortly and sparsely tomentose. Leaves opposite; lamina lanceolate, 12-20 by 3-6 cm, shortly cuneate at the base to a petiole c. 3 mm long, acuminate and acute at the apex, glossy above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib prominent on both sides and other venation obscure. Inflorescencess at the nodes, pedunculate c. 6-rayed umbels of tetrads with the outermost flower sessile and the lateral and inner ones pedicellate; peduncle c. 4 mm long; rays 3-4 mm long; pedicels of the lateral and inner-facing flowers 1-2 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 6-merous, c. 35 mm long, inflated at the base, weakly clavate and acute at the apex, pink; petals in the open flower coherent in the lower 10-12 mm. Anther c. 3 mm long, about half as long as the free part of the filament.
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