Shrub. Branchlets rather flattened at the tips, rather densely clothed with very short, whitish hairs and longish, subpatent, glandular bristle-like hairs, dark brown red when dry. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, apex shortly rather abruptly acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland small, base contracted into the petiole, subtruncate-rounded or-subcordate, firmly subcoriaceous, very shortly pubescent along the midrib and nerves on both sides, otherwise glabrous above, but initially rather densely clad with short bristle-like hairs all over beneath especially on the midrib and nerves, finally punctate beneath, regularly serrulate, the teeth caducously glandular-ciliate, 0.5 mm high and c. 1 mm spaced, (3-)3.5-6 by (2-)2.5-3.5 cm, midrib rather deeply sunken above, robust and prominent beneath, nerves 4-5, long curved-ascendent pairs, slightly immersed above as are the veins, ± raised beneath, veins conspicuous beneath, veinlets less so; petiole setulose, 6 mm. Racemes solitary, axillary, rather slender, 8(-10) cm, many-flowered. Rachis densely clad with very short whitish or yellowish ± spreading hairs and laxly glandular-setulose (1-1.5 mm), perulae few, early caducous, inflorescence practically eperulate at full anthesis. Pedicels rather slender, 6-8 mm, densely very shortly pubescent and laxly glandular-setulose, with a ring of very dense glandular hairs below the calyx. Bract ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent, 2-2.5 mm. Bracteoles inserted at or slightly above the middle of the pedicels, distinctly alternate, at least 1 mm remote from the calyx. Calyx 2 mm, lobes ovate, subappressed-pubescent on both sides. Corolla urceolate-cylindric, glabrous outside, patently hairy inside, c. 6 by 3.5 mm, very shortly 5-lobed. Filaments very laxly hairy below, papillate elsewhere, 2.5 mm; anther-cells broad-oblong, curved, c. 1 mm, tubules very short, each ending with a pair of longish (1 mm) horns. Ovary densely clad with whitish erect hairs; style rather densely pubescent, but glabrous on the very top, c. 3 mm.
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