Shrub. Branchlets flattened or subangular at the tips, subterete below, with sparse sessile glands (i.e. the persistent bases of caducous bristles), otherwise glabrous. Leaves subovate-elliptic or-oblong, apex gradually rather shortly acuminate, the terminal gland thick, base broad-cuneate or sometimes nearly rounded, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, rather stiff, regularly serrulate, teeth c. 1 mm high and 1.5-2(-3) mm spaced, caducously setular-ciliate, rather blunt, glabrous above, laxly to subdensely glandular-punctate beneath, (3-)4-7(-8) by (2-)2.2-3(-3.5) cm, midrib, nerves and veins ± distinctly impressed above, midrib very prominent beneath, nerves 5(-6) pairs, curved and high ascending, anastomosing near the edge, prominent beneath, veins ± transverse, slightly raised beneath, veinlets subobscure; petiole grooved above, glabrous, 7-9 mm. Racemes solitary from the upper axils, (3-)3.5-5 cm, +-obliquely spreading, rather many-flowered, provided at the base with 2 ovate or ovate-oblong, acutish, subcoriaceous rather early caducous perulae. Rachis rather stiff, c. 1.5 mm ø at base, very densely and exclusively clad with fine, crisped whitish yellowish, minutely gland-tipped hairs. Pedicels rather slender, pubescent below, quite glabrous below the calyx, 6-8 mm at anthesis, elongate in fruit. Bract ovate-oblong, pubescent, 2-3 by 1.5-2 mm. Bracteoles inserted at 1/3 to 1/2 on the pedicel, subopposite, pubescent, c. 2 by 1 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, lobes ovate, subacute, glabrous dorsally, slightly pubescent internally, ciliate. Corolla urceolate, white or pink, glabrous outside, laxly pubescent inside, c. 5 by 2.5 mm, only slightly contracted at the limb, very shortly 5-lobed. Stamens half as long as the corolla; filaments papillose, moreover laxly hairy below; anther-cells ovate-oblong, the very short tubules biaristate (0.7 mm). Ovary densely pubescent; style pubescent below only, 2.5 mm. Fruit c. 6 mm ø, blackish at full maturity.
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