Shrub, epiphytic, 60 cm. Branchlets drooping, slender, terete, smooth, early covered with cork which peels off, tips dark brown-purplish when dry, completely glabrous. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, ensiform, slightly inequilateral, apex long-acuminate to caudate, sometimes falcate, the terminal gland small but dinstinct, base short-attenuate to nearly rounded, rather stiff, coriaceous, glabrous, the undersurface punctate by scattered blackish glands, 13-20(-24) by l.1-1.8(-3.2) cm, widest below the middle, midrib impressed above the entire length, prominent beneath, 1 pair of nerves on each side from somewhat above the base of the lamina, high ascending along the edge nearly to the top, slightly impressed above, sometimes hardly visible, other nerves obsolete; petiole stout, blackish when dry, rugulose, 3-7 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in twos, sometimes also 3 or 4 in other axils of the same specimen. Pedicels slender, laxly papillose-puberulous, 4-5 mm, basal bracts minute, scariose. Bracteoles broad-ovate to reniform, ciliolate, 1-1.5 mm. Calyx 3.5 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate, erect, obtuse, glandular-ciliolate, 2 mm. Corolla ventricose-urceolate, contracted towards the base, glabrous, white, tinged with dull lavender or purple, or cream-green, 5 by c. 2 mm, lobes short. Filaments glabrous, linear, 2 mm; anther-cells oblong-ovate, 1.5 mm, the short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style 2.5 mm. Fruit blackish when ripe, 4-5 mm ø.
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