Shrub with long trailing branches or small tree, rarely scandent vine. Branchlets obtusangular, glabrous. Leaves scattered or narrow-oblong, apex shortly gradually acuminate, subacute, base cuneate, basal glands small but well discernible, coriaceous, glabrous, very laxly or not glandular-punctate beneath, 10-20 by (2-)2.5-5 cm, minutely and remotely denticulate or subcrenulate, 5(-7)-plinerved from and from 2-3 cm above the base, midrib and nerves faintly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation lax, raised beneath only; petiole 6-8 by c. 2 mm. Racemes abbreviate, axillary or often from the stem, 5-6(-15)-flowered, glabrous; rachis thick, c. 1 cm. Pedicels 15-20 by 1-1.5 mm. Bracteoles +-connate at the base, ciliate, subbasal. Calyx cupshaped, tube semiglobose, base rounded, c. 3 mm, articulation with the pedicel indistinct, limb ± spreading, 2 mm, wavy, very shortly 5-lobed or-denticulate. Corolla subcylindric, ± dilated distally, fleshy, white or creamy white, 1.8-2 cm by 4-5 mm ø at base, 6-7 mm across the mouth (1.8-2.2 cm, 7 mm and 10-13 mm fresh), lobes deltoid, c. 3 mm. Stamens 8-9(-10) and 6.5-7(-8) mm; major stamens', filaments densely fulvous-substrigose distally as are the connective and its processes, c. 4 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base apiculate, 7(-8) mm including the ± divergent, 2 mm long tubules; processes very close or ± connate, at least 0.5 mm longer. Disk glabrous. Style rather slender, glabrous, (2-)2.2(-2.7) cm.
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