Prostrate shrublet, much branched below, 30-40 cm, branches from a thick tuber-like base. Branchlets slender (1-2 mm), subterete, rather densely foliate, rather densely covered with rufous, +-spreading, bristle-like, eglandular hairs (c. 1.5 mm). Leaves ovate, apex short-acuminate, the terminal gland thickish and prominent, base rounded or very broadly attenuate, coriaceous, ± shining on both faces, glabrous above, laxly, very shortly and caducously setulose or punctate beneath, ± regularly serrate, teeth caducously setulose-ciliate, 1-2 mm spaced, hardly 0.5 mm high, margin slightly revolute, (1-)1.2-1.8(-2) by 0.8-1.3 cm, midrib slightly sunken above, distinctly prominent beneath, nerves 3(-4) pairs, high curved-ascending, ± raised above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation rather lax, somewhat prominent especially beneath; petiole laxly setulose, thickish, 1-2 mm. Racemes from the upper 3-5 axils, lower ones 3-5-flowered, upper ones 2-flowered or reduced to a single flower. Rachis 0.5-1 cm, glabrous, with 2-3 small perulae. Pedicels glabrous, 1—2(-3) mm. Bract oblong, ciliolate, c. 2 mm. Bracteoles ovate, alternate, inserted on the pedicel at a short, but marked distance from the calyx. Calyx 4 mm, lobes ovate-acuminate, acutish, ciliolate, glabrous outside, puberulous along the mediane inside, c. 2.5 mm. Corolla urceolate, white, somewhat 5-angular, glabrous in-and outside, 4 mm, at full anthesis 5-partite to 3/4. Stamens not well developed; filaments (possibly not normal) narrow-subulate, papillose; anther-cells not seen. Ovary rather densely yellowish hairy; style clothed with some spreading hairs, 3 mm.
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