Treelet up to 8 m, trunk c. 2 m. Branchlets ± slender, obtusangular at the tips, glabrous. Leaves lax, ovate-elliptic or elliptic-, more rarely ovate-oblong, apex rather abruptly (1-1.5 cm) acuminate, bluntish, base broadly attenuate or rounded, glands ± marked, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly to subdensely set on both faces with blackish glandular points, regularly minutely subserrate-denticulate or subentire, 5-9(-14) by 2.5-4.5(-5.5) cm, 5-7-plinerved from and from up to 2 cm above the base, midrib and nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation lax to rather dense, only raised beneath; petiole blackish, rugulose, 6-10 by 1.5-2(-2.5) mm. Abbreviate racemes or clusters from foliate and/or defoliate axils, 4-5(-7)-flowered, glabrous; rachis +-robust, 0.5-1(-1.5) cm. Pedicels stout, 8-12 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube subcylindric, green, 3-4 by 4 mm, base truncate, limb +-spreading, 2 mm, 5-lobed halfway, lobes depressed-ovate, apiculate. Corolla subcylindric, 1.5-1.8 cm by 4 mm at base, 5-6 mm ø at apex, red, ± fleshy, lobes deltoid, obtuse, 2.5 mm. Stamens 8-9 and 6.5-7 mm; major stamens: filaments linear, densely yellowish hirsutulous and ciliate above base, c. 3.5 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base acute and laxly short-hairy, c. 6 mm including the ± divergent, c. 2 mm long tubules; processes ± connate, densely hirsutulous, c. 1 mm longer than the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style rather thick, glabrous, c. 3 mm exserted. Fruit subglobose, apex truncate, shining, purplish when fresh, 8-9 mm ø.
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