Small erect epiphytic shrub, up to 1 m, diffusely branched. Branches slender, brown, glabrous, slightly striate, terete. Branchlets laxly subap-pressedly and rather longish rufous-setose. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland thickish, somewhat protruding, base acutely attenuate, subcoriaceous, shining and glabrous above, dull and laxly blackish punctulate beneath, entire or nearly so, setose-ciliate when very young, but in later stages the margin somewhat cartilaginous and set with remote, dark, sessile, subimpressed glands, giving the impression of being crenulate, 1.6-2(-2.5) by 0.7-1 cm, midrib impressed above, scarcely visible beneath, nerves ± obsolete; petiole ± setulose, glabrescent, c. 2 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels rather densely appressedly ru-fous-setulose, with some fine short hairs between the bristles, 3-4 mm in anthesis, accrescent up to 7 mm, basal bract minute. Bracteoles broad-ovate, glabrous dorsally, fimbriate, 1.2 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, glabrous, deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate, obtuse, shortly glandular-fringed at the margin, the very apex with a tuft of fine hairs. Corolla ovate-urceolate, glabrous, nearly full-developed c. 2.5 mm. Stamens 8; filaments flat-linear, glabrous; anthers ovate-oblong, tubules narrow, very short. Ovary glabrous or with a few hairs; style 2 mm in very young fruit.
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