Shrubs. Branchlets purplish brown with stellate hairs when young, becoming grayish brown and glabrous. Petiole ca. 4 mm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 16-25 5-7 cm, abaxially stellate tomentose on veins and densely purple glandular, adaxially glabrous except midvein sparsely puberulent, base cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acute, veins 8 or 9 pairs. Cymes dense, ca. 1 cm across; peduncle shorter than petioles; bracts small. Pedicel ca. 1.5 mm. CalyX cup-shaped, truncate, subglabrous, purple glandular. Corolla white, 3.5 mm in diam., subglabrous, purple glandular. Filaments shorter than corolla tube. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.
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