Glabrous except for the inflorescence and flowers and sometimes the leaf undersur-face densely rusty stellate hairy. Leaves opposite or scattered; lamina ovate, 3-9 by 1.5-4.5 cm, cuneate or attenuate at the base to a petiole 5-15 mm long, obtuse or shortly rounded at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals distinct above and prominent below. Inflorescences at the nodes, a 4-6-flower-ed more or less subumbellate raceme; axis 4-10 mm long; pedicels 3-5 mm long, dilated upwards. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, (20-)25-30 mm long, almost cylindric, weakly clavate and rounded at the apex, the colour obscured by the indumentum; tube in the open flower (13—)15—19 mm long with the lobes reflexed 4-6 mm higher, slightly curved. Anther c. 3 mm long, obtuse, slightly shorter than the free part of the filament.
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