Shrub, 3-4.5 m. Branchlets rather thick, variously obtusangular, older parts covered with greyish cork which bears the point-like relics of the fallen bristles, younger ones laxly set with spreading glandular-capitate bristly hairs. Leaves elliptic, apex rounded or slightly retuse, apiculate by a protruding gland, base broadly and shortly contracted in or decurrent on the petiole, coriaceous, glossy and punctulate above, dull and subdensely caducously glandular-setulose or punctate beneath, 4-5 by 2.5-4 cm, caducously setular and subcrenulate at the slightly revolute margin, midrib immersed above, obtusely prominent beneath, nerves 4(-5) pairs, curved-ascendent, and almost parallel, a little impressed above, the lower ones only ± prominent beneath, reticulation obscure; petiole slender, flattened, 1-1.5 cm by 1.5-2 mm, grooved above, laxly patently glandular-setulose. Fascicles 3-5(-6)-flowered; perulae ovate-acuminate, c. 2 mm. Pedicels slender, 1-1.3 cm, subdensely patently glandular-setulose. Bracteoles small, dorsally set with thick subsessile glands. Calyx tube cupular, 2.5 mm in all, contracted at the very base only, shining, corrugate in dry specimens, glabrous, lobes deltoid, c. 2 mm, fimbriate along the whole margin by thick (sub)sessile glands. Corolla narrowly campanulate, thin, pinkish white, glabrous, c. 8 mm long in all, 2.5 mm ø at base, 5-6 mm0 at limb, lobes triangular, 2 mm. Stamens 10, equal, connivent, 8 mm; filaments linear, glabrous; anthers elongate-ovate, tubules narrowed distally. Disk lobes thick, 0.5 mm. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, rather slender.
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