Shrubs to 31/2 m tall, the branchlets terete, smooth, glabrous, ultimately an-gular, the nodes well spaced. Leaves oblong, 4.5-9.5 cm long, 1.3-4 cm wide, obtuse or widely deltoid at the apex, acuminate, the acumen often barely dis-cernible, ultimately obtuse, basally acute, the costa prominulous above, the lat-eral veins ca. 13, perpendicular to the costa, forming an undulate submarginal vein ca. 1.5 mm from the margin, the margin lightly revolute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, concolorous, drying emerald green or whitish green; petioles to 0.8 cm long, rigid, glabrous; stipules connate, glabrous, with each part oblong rotund, to 4 mm long, with a median keel continuing into a terminal rigid bristle shorter or longer than the body, coriaceous. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, umbel-liform, to 6 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, glabrous, the peduncle 1-2.5 cm long, the cymes radiately disposed; pedicels slender, 0.5-1 cm long. Flowers with the hypanthium oblong rotund, to 1.2 mm in diam., the calycine cup much reduced, truncate, erose and minutely puberulent marginally, the lobes inconspicuous, to 0.3 mm long, truncate or obtuse; corolla violet blue, the tube narrowly cylindrical, 5-6.5 mm long, ca. 0.1 cm wide, thin carnose, glabrous inside and out, the lobes 4, unequal, narrowly oblong, to 6 mm long, to 2 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous; stamens 4, the anthers oblong, ca. 3 mm long, obtuse, attached above the middle of the tube; style linear, to 2.5 mm long, the stigmas 2, to 0.8 mm long, ovarian disc to 0.6 mm long, rounded. Fruits on pedicels to 1.5 cm long, equal in length, slender, radially disposed, the pedicel scars obvious, ringlike, the bracteoles few, stipulelike, the body of the fruit round to compressed rotund, ca. 0.5-1.2 cm in diam., smooth, glabrous, often emerald green when dry, the calycine cup small.
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