Shrub or treelet. Branchlets terete or slightly obtusangular, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves aromatic, elliptic, broad elliptic-obovate or sub-orbicular-obovate, rarely oblong-elliptic, apex obtuse, the terminal gland rather obscure, forming a short apiculus with a ± apical teeth, base broadly attenuate to rounded, thick-coriaceous, rigid, dull, dark green above, whitish green beneath with reddish midrib, glabrous above, laxly to subdensely blackish punctulate beneath, somewhat irregularly and ± obtusely serrate-crenate, the teeth c. 0.5 mm high, 1-3 mm spaced, 3.5-6.5 by 1.5-4.7 cm, midrib slightly impressed above, much raised beneath, nerves 5(-7) pairs, rather steeply curved-ascending, the lowest 1-2 pairs from or a little from above the base, all slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, as is the distinct but rather lax reticulation; petiole subterete, slightly grooved above, glabrous, 5-10 mm. Racemes from the uppermost axils forming a terminal nearly aphyllous panicle, those from the lower axils of normal leaves solitary, the single racemes 10-16-flowered, mostly suberect, 2.5-5.5(-7) cm, with several small ± caducous perulae, pinkish red at rachis, pedicels and calyces. Rachis slender, minutely pubescent. Pedicels slender, 4-5 mm, puberulous. Bract ovate, ciliolate. Bracteoles inserted immediately below the calyx, broadly ovate, ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, glabrous outside, short-pubescent inside, lobes ovate, acute, ciliolate, 2 mm. Corolla ovoid-urceolate, c. 4 by 3 mm, white or pink, glabrous, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 10; filaments densely papillose, long-ciliate; anther-cells oblong-ovate, 1 mm; tubules nearly 1 mm, biaristate. Ovary pubescent; style puberulous at the base, glabrescent towards the apex, c. 2 mm. Fruit 4-5 mm ø, purple-blackish, fruit-pedicel 6-7 mm.
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