Shrub. Branchlets subangular, glabrous, dark red brown when dry. Leaves elliptic or broadly ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland thick and blunt, base cuneate into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly to subdensely blackish punctulate beneath, rather sharply serrulate, the teeth ending in caducous bristles, c. 0.5 mm high, 2-3 mm distant from each other, 3.5-4.5 by 1.8-2.5 cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves in 2 pairs, the outer pair from the base of the lamina and excurrent near the edge, the inner and upper one properly from the midrib, curved-ascendent to the top, all nerves slightly sunken above, raised beneath, veins ± transverse, forming with the veinlets a lax net, which is rather inconspicuous on both faces; petiole robust, 3-4 by c. 1.5 mm. Fascicles axillary, 6-8-flowered, with numerous basal ovate-acuminate ciliolate bracts and bracteoles. Pedicels stoutish, glabrous, 6-8 mm. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, glabrous, c. 2.5 mm, lobes acute, ciliolate towards the apex. Corolla and stamens not seen. Ovary rather densely yellowish-pubescent; style glabrous, c. 3 mm.
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