Shrub. Branchlets often elongate, the young red-brown shoots angular, papillose-puberulous, occasionally with some short gland-tipped bristlelike hairs. Leaves subspathulate-obovate, apex rounded, sometimes slightly retuse, the terminal gland thick, protruding, base cuneate into the petiole, coriaceous, sparsely minutely blackish punctulate on both faces especially beneath, obscurely crenulate towards the apex, or nearly entire, flat, 1.4-3 by 0.6-1.5 cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, obscurely impressedly triplinerved, nerves sometimes hardly visible above, mostly slightly raised beneath; petiole grooved, muriculate, 2-4 mm. Flowers mostly solitary, sometimes in twos, rarely in threes. Pedicels sub-filiform, minutely laxly clavate-muriculate, 1.2-2.6 cm. Bracteoles broadly triangular to semi-orbicular, obtuse, puberulous and glandular-muriculate dorsally, ciliolate, c. 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, puberulous, lobes triangular, subacute, margin glandular-muriculate and ciliolate, 1.8 mm. Corolla campanulate, white, glabrous, c. 1 cm, lobes obtuse, c. 3 mm. Filaments linear, somewhat dilated at the base, papillose, 3 mm; anther-cells oblong, inflexed at the base, 2 mm; tubules rather broad, nearly 1 mm. Ovary glabrous; style c. 1 mm.
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