Glabrous except for young shoots sometimes sparsely brown tomentose. Leaves opposite; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 6-8 by 2.5-4 cm, shortly cuneate at the base to a distinct petiole c. 10 mm long, sometimes attenuate but finally rounded at the apex, dull powdery green on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib distinct and the main laterals faintly visible on both sides. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a raceme of c. 5 opposite evenly spaced pairs of triads with the central flower sessile and the lateral flowers nearly so; axis 35-40 mm long; peduncles of the triads c. 1 mm long, secund. Corolla in mature bud 6-merous, 6-8 mm long, slender, weakly clavate and obtuse at apex, light green; petals in open flower separating to the base. Anther c. 1.5 mm long, acute, subsessile.
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