Shrub 1-4 m. tall, densely hirsute throughout with simple hairs; petioles stout, 1-1.5 cm. long; leaf-blades thin, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, often unequal in each pair, commonly 8-20 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, acuminate, entire or minutely serrulate, acute to rounded and usually oblique at base, sparsely pilose on both sides, 5-pli-nerved, the inner pair usually alternate; inflorescence 1-3 cm. long, few-flowered, short-stalked; hypanthium campanulate, about 3 mm. long; calyx truncate; exterior teeth subulate, erect, 2-5 mm. long, hirsute; petals white, obovate, 6-7 mm. long; filaments arcuate near the summit; anthers subulate, the connective not prolonged.
Moist or wet thickets or mixed forest, often in second growth, at elevations up to 1,400 metres but usually at the lower elevations.
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