Shrub. Branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves lax, subovate-or lanceolate-oblong, apex shortly gradually acuminate, bluntish, base broadly attenuate, or more rarely obtuse to almost rounded, basal glands not much conspicuous, subcoriaceous, glabrous, laxly blackish punctate beneath, entire, 7(-9)-plinerved from and from high above the base, 15-20 by 4.5-7(-8) cm, midrib and nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, distinct beneath only; petiole 8-20 by 2-3 mm. Racemes axillary, 5-7-flowered, glabrous; rachis 2-2.5 cm. Pedicels 10-13 cm by 0.75-1 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube subsemiglobose, base ± rounded, 3 by 3 mm, limb +-spreading, 2 mm, 5-lobed nearly to the base, lobes broadly ovate-acuminate, apiculate. Corolla tubular, fleshy, 2-2.3 cm by c. 5 mm, lobes obtuse, c. 4 mm. Stamens 12 and 10 mm; major stamens', filaments ciliate in the upper 1/4, c. 4 mm; cells elongate-oblong, base obtuse, 1 cm including the 2 mm long tubules; connective subdensely or more laxly hirsutulous, processes connate and ± as long as the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style glabrous, c. 2.4 cm, hardly exserted.
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