Erect shrub, c. 30 cm. Branches terete, becoming blackish when dry, striate. Branchlets puberulous, here and there set with a solitary appressed bristle. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, apex short-acuminate, the terminal gland small though somewhat prominent, base attenuate into the petiole, subcoriaceous, glabrous except some scattered blackish points underneath, entire or remotely ciliate-denticulate, (2-)2.3—3.5 cm by 4-6 mm, midrib impressed above, a little raised beneath, nerves obscure; petiole stoutish, 1-2 mm, inserted on a thick leaf-cushion. Flowers axillary, solitary or rarely in twos. Pedicels pubescent, c. 1.5 mm, basal bracts 2 or 3, minute. Bracteoles broad-ovate, glabrous, ciliate. Calyx 2 mm, contracted at the base, glabrous, lobes ovate, obtuse, fimbriate-ciliolate, 1 mm. Corolla cylindric-urceolate, red, 2.5-3 by c. 1.5 mm, glabrous, very shortly 4-(or 5-)lobed. Stamens 8 (rarely 10); filaments linear, inflexed, glabrous, c. 1.5 mm; anthers ovate, saccate at the base, c. 1.5 mm, the short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style filiform, 2.5 mm.
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