Shrub. Leaves oblong-elliptic, apex very shortly (1-1.5 cm) subacutely and ± abruptly acuminate, base broadly attenuate, coriaceous, glabrous but laxly minutely glandular-pointed beneath, 16-21 by 6-8.3 cm, entire, 9(-11)-plinerved from and from up to 4 cm above the base, midrib and nerves strongly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, minutely raised on both faces; petiole glabrous, 1.2-1.5 by 0.3 cm, ± flattened. Abbreviate racemes or fascicles 6-8-flowered, from defoliate axils or old wood; rachis stoutish, c. 2 cm, ± glabrous. Pedicels c. 10 by 1.8 mm, laxly puberulous. Bracteoles oblong-ovate, 4-5(-7) by 2-3 mm, glabrous. Calyx laxly and very shortly pubescent, tube cup-shaped, base rounded, c. 4(-5) by 4 mm, limb slightly spreading, 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes depressed-ovate, apiculate. Corolla tubular, fleshy, laxly very shortly pubescent outside, (3-)3.5 by c. 0.5 cm, lobes deltoid, obtuse, c. 4 mm. Stamens 13 and 11 mm; major stamens', filaments c. 5 mm, hairy distally; cells elongate, 8 mm including the tubules, hooked inward below; tubules ± divergent, 2.5 mm; processes hirsute, connate, as long as the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style rather slender, glabrous, c. 3 cm.
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