Erect shrub. Branches and branchlets terete, sparsely setose, finally glabrous. Leaves lax, elliptic, apex short-acuminate, though obtuse by a pronounced terminal gland, base cuneate-atten-uate, coriaceous, very young ones rather densely setulose on both faces, mature ones set with some scattered bristles or finally quite glabrous above, and with longer persistent longish and appressed rufous bristle-like hairs beneath, subentire, 2.5-4.5(-7) by (1.5-)2.5—3.5 cm, impressedly 3-nerved above; petiole 3-6 mm. Flowers solitary. Pedicels slender, sparsely appressed-setose, (1.2-)1.5-2 cm. Bracteoles ovate, ciliate at apex, otherwise dorsally clad with scabrid, rufous, bristlelike hairs as is the calyx. Calyx 3 mm, lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, 9 mm, shortly 5-lobed. Filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers ovate-oblong, papillose, 2.8 mm. Ovary glabrous; style glabrous, a little longer than the anthers.
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