Shrub. Branchlets obtusangular, covered with greyish cork, tips brownish with some scattered short caducous bristles, or their bases, or glabrous. Leaves elliptic to obovate, sometimes oblong or broad-elliptic to nearly rounded, apex broad-attenuate, obtuse or rounded, also emarginate, apiculate by a thick dark protruding gland, base broadly cuneate into the petiole, or rarely nearly rounded, stiff-coriaceous, shining and glabrous above, dull and laxly blackish punctate beneath, margin revolute and with very minute impressed crenulations, (2.5-)4-5 by 1.5-2.5(-3) cm, midrib impressed above, thick and prominent beneath, nerves 2-3 pairs, rather inconspicuous on both faces; petiole stout, rugulose, glabrous or sometimes with some short bristles on the uppermost leaves, 4-6 by 1.5-2 mm. Flowers 1-2, rarely 3 per axil. Pedicels clothed with short rufescent rough hairs with some short thick glandular hairs between, glabrescent in later stages, 4-6 by c. 1 mm, basal bracts ovate, acute, few in number. Bracteoles ovate, apiculate, rough-haired dorsally, ciliate, c. 1.5 mm. Calyx 5 mm, contracted at the very base, 5-lobed to nearly the base, lobes narrow-ovate, acuminate, laxly appressed-hairy dorsally, especially towards the tips, margin muriculate and ciliate, c. 4 mm. Corolla urceolate, c. 6 mm, glabrous on the very base, otherwise densely covered with yellowish appressed hairs, lobes reflexed, c. 1 mm. Filaments linear, dilated towards the base, papillose, 2.8 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, echinulate, 2.5 mm including the rather short tubules. Ovary rather densely yellowish hirsute; style as long as the corolla. Fruit blackish, c. 5 mm ø, calyx lobes somewhat spreading in their upper half; capsule hirsute on top.
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