Shrub. Branchlets slender, subterete, striate, glabrous. Branchlets subquadrangular, laxly to subdensely covered with ± appressed, fine, rufescent bristles and densely papillose-puberulent. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, subcoriaceous, apex short-acuminate, acute or subobtuse, the terminal gland small, slightly prominent, base cuneate, glabrous and shining above, dull and laxly blackish glandular-punctulate beneath, entire or indistinctly crenulate, the teeth passing into fine, rather early caducous bristles (1 mm), margin slightly revolute, (10-)12-14(-16) by (4-)5-6(-7) mm, midrib impressed above, a little raised beneath in its lower part, nerves obscure; petiole rather slender, rugulose, 1-2 mm. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, rarely in twos. Pedicels laxly setulose, 3-4 mm, basal bracts c. 3, minute. Bracteoles ovate, glabrous, glandular-ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, glabrous, 5-lobed to the middle, lobes ovate, acute, glandular-ciliolate. Corolla campanulate, base slightly contracted, glabrous, 6 mm, 5-lobed to nearly halfway. Filaments from the dilated base abruptly linear towards the apex, glabrous^. 2.5 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, granular, 1.5 mm, the rather short tubules included. Ovary densely yellowish hairy; style 4-5 mm.
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