Shrub, 1-3 m. Branchlets terete, rather densely clothed with long (c. 2 mm) ± spreading bristles. Leaves ovate, apex short-acuminate, the terminal gland thickish, but not protracted, base rounded to subcordate, coriaceous, glabrous above, the undersurface initially rather densely set with numerous short ± caducous bristles, finally punctate by the persistent bases of these bristles, regularly serrulate, teeth thick-glandular, caducously setose-ciliate, 0.3-1 mm high, 1.5-3 mm spaced, 3.4-9.2 by 2.2-5.8 cm, 5-plinerved, main nerves oriented from and from somewhat above the base of the lamina, curved-ascending to the top, all =h deeply impressed above as is the midrib, or prominent beneath, numerous other nerves or veins ± transverse, forming a very lax net together with the veins or veinlets, all these slightly impressed above or raised beneath, or sometimes rather obscure; petiole stout, setose, 2-5 mm. Fascicles in many upper axils, each 7-12-flowered, provided with numerous ovate-acuminate ciliolate bracts and bracteoles at and near the base. Pedicels glabrous, rather slender, 3-6 mm. Calyx glabrous, 3-4 mm, deeply 5-partite, lobes acute. Corolla broadly subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, sordid-whitish or greenish with red, 4-5 mm, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens nearly 3 mm; filaments ciliolate; anther-cells oblong, each cell with 2 subulate divergent horns distally. Ovary pubescent; style glabrous, 2.5 mm. Fruit c. 5-6 mm ø, blackish red when ripe, fruit-pedicel 6-8 mm.
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