Scandent shrub. Branchlets slender, flexuous, densely covered with fine, spreading, whitish hairs and larger, red, bristle-like, gland-clubbed hairs. Leaves ovate, apex subcaudate-acuminate, the terminal gland small, base rounded to subcordate, subcoriaceous, initially laxly clothed with short eglandular and longer (1-2 mm), slender, gland-tipped, reddish hairs above, more densely so beneath, glabrescent with age, but remaining pubescent on midrib and nerves beneath, obsoletely serrate, the teeth indicated by long (c. 2 mm), slender, bristle-like and gland-tipped hairs which are persistent for a rather long time, 5—7(-11) by (1.5-)2-5(-7) cm, midrib and nerves slightly prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, nerves 4(-5) pairs, ascending, anastomosing, the lowest 1-2 pair(s) from the base of the lamina, veins ± transverse, slightly raised on both faces, forming a lax reticulation with the veinlets; petiole 3-5(-7) mm, glandular-setulose. Racemes axillary, practically eperulate at anthesis, lax-flowered, the supporting leaves sometimes early caducous so that a very lax terminal panicle is formed. Rachis slender, 2.5-5.6(-8) cm, as the pedicels with similar indument as the branchlets. Pedicels stoutish, (4-)6-8 mm. Bract ovate-acute, 1.5 mm. Bracteoles inserted immediately below the calyx, ovate-apiculate, hairy, 1.5 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, densely non-glandular hairy outside especially at the tips as are the bracteoles, lobes ovate, c. 2 mm. Corolla subcylindric-urceolate, 5-6 by 3.5 mm, shortly 5-lobed, said to be light red, subdensely eglandular-pubescent outside especially in the upper half, glabrous inside. Filaments glabrous, papillose, 2 mm; anther-cells oblong-ovate, granular, each biaristate apically. Ovary densely hairy; style glabrous, 3 mm.
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