Terrestrial shrub, 2-3 m, much branched. Branchlets obtusangular, short-pubescent. Leaves dense, narrow-oblong, apex shortly acutely or mostly rather obtusely acuminate or attenuate, base cuneate, coriaceous, stiff, entire or obscurely crenulate, marginate, 4-7 by 1.2-1.5(-3) cm, glabrous, laxly glandular-blackish punctulate beneath, midrib and nerves not much distinct above, though prominent beneath, nerves 2 or 3 pairs from and from above the base, high curved-ascendent, several others more irregular, more patent and less conspicuous, reticulation +-obscure; petiole (5-)6-9 by 1 mm, pubescent. Fascicles (2-)3-4(-5)-flowered, from foliate and defoliate axils; rachis 0-5 mm. Pedicels and calyx subdensely short-pubescent, (1.5-)1.8-2(-2.5) cm by 1 mm. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, 2 mm, inserted at 6-10 mm above base. Calyx subsemiglobose after anthesis, c. 4 by 4 mm, limb erecto-patent, 5-dentate almost to base, 2 mm. Corolla tubular, probably red, 1.8 cm (found dry on the fruit), c. 5 mm ø, densely short-hairy outside, with lax, rather long hairs inside, lobes 2 mm. Stamens 9 and 7 mm; major stamens: filaments except the very base subdensely hairy as is the connective, c. 3 mm; cells hairy along the midline in front, 7 mm; processes at the back of tubules, subdensely clad with rather long hairs, ± shorter than the tubules. Disk subdensely and ± appressedly hairy. Style slender, glabrous, c. 2.3 cm. Immature fruit subglobose, contracted at the limb.
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