Glabrous except for the young parts, inflorescences and flowers densely white tomentose. Leaves scattered or subopposite, pendulous; lamina linear-lanceolate, 7-15 by 0.6-2.5 cm, attenuate at the base to a slender petiole 5-20 mm long, thin, attenuate and obtuse at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with only the midrib distinct. Inflorescences at the nodes, a 2-or 3-flowered subumbellate raceme; axis 5-12 mm long; the pedicels c. 3 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 4-merous, 12-18 mm long, robust, clavate and obtuse at the apex, green beneath the indumentum; tube in the open flower not seen but probably short, regular, with the lobes reflexed near the middle. Anther 3-5 mm long, obtuse, about twice as long as the free part of the filament. Fig. 22a, b.
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