Shrub, 2 m. Branches subangular, much branched distally. Branchlets erect, angular, stiff, greyish corticate in the older, brown-red and densely papillose-puberulous in the younger parts. Leaves obovate-elliptic or obovate, apex veryshort-ly and broadly attenuate to rounded, the terminal gland thick and prominent, base broad-cuneate into the petiole, subcoriaceous, glabrous and shining above, dull and rather densely minutely blackish punctate beneath, margin slightly revolute and minutely impressed-crenulate, seemingly entire, 1.5-3 by 0.9-1.7 cm, midrib slightly immersed above, prominent beneath only in its lower half, nerves in 2-3 pairs, the suprabasal pair high curved-ascendent to the top, the upper ones shorter and less curved, all faintly impressed above, +-inconspicuous beneath. Petiole stoutish, 2-3 mm. Flowers 3-6 per fascicle. Pedicels rather slender, +-densely shortly crisped-yellowish hairy, 3-5 mm. Bracteoles ovate, subacute, hairy in the middle externally, ciliolate, 0.8 mm. Calyx contracted at the base, glabrous, 2 mm, lobes ovate, subacute, glandular-fimbriate, 1 mm. Corolla tubular, white, glabrous, 3.5 by c. 1.8 mm, lobes erect, 0.6 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 1.5 mm; anther-cells oblong, echinulate, 1 mm, gradually passing into the tubules; tubules narrow, 1 mm. Ovary rather densely yellowish hairy; style 2-2.5 mm. Fruit red.
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