Shrub. Branchlets slender, subangular, glabrous. Leaves ovate, apex short-acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland thick, but not much protruding, base ± rounded, coriaceous, glabrous above, rather densely punctulate beneath otherwise glabrous, appressed-serrulate, the teeth thickish glandular, barely 0.2-0.4 mm high, 1.5-3 mm distant from each other, each ending in a line caducous bristle, 5.5-9.5(-10.5) by 3.5-5.5(-6) cm, midrib slightly impressed above, thick-prominent beneath, nerves 2(-3) pairs, lowest pair from the base, upper ones from the midrib, all high curved-ascending, anastomosing near the top, slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, veins transverse, prominent beneath only, reticulation fine, lax and not very conspicuous; petiole 4-5 mm. Fascicles axillary, 3-7-flowered, many-bracteate at the base. Pedicels rather slender, 3-4 mm at anthesis, up to 7 mm in fruit, somewhat above the base with 2 ovate-acuminate bracteoles. Calyx partite halfway, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous, lobes acute. Corolla shortly urceolate, green, glabrous, c. 4 by 3 mm, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens not well developed in the specimens at hand; filaments papillose; anther-cells reduced in size, each biaristate. Ovary densely yellowish hairy; style glabrous, 3 mm.
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