Shrublet. Branchlets slender (2 mm), apparently prostrate, terete, laxly caducously setulose or punctate by the persistent bases of the bristles, furthermore short-pubescent towards the tips. Leaves ovate, apex short-acuminate, the terminal gland thick and prominent, base rounded, ± coriaceous, rather shining on both faces, glabrous above, sparsely very shortly setulose or punctate beneath, ± regularly serrate, teeth glandular, 0.3-0.5 mm, 1-2 mm spaced, not ciliate, 1.8-2.5 by 1.2-1.5 cm, midrib sunken above, raised beneath, nerves 3 pairs, high-ascending from the base and the lower third of the midrib, very slightly or not impressed above, prominent beneath, veins ± transverse, impressed above, reticulation rather distinct underneath; petiole stoutish, setulose, c. 2 mm. Racemes solitary, in the rather poor type specimen (where the top is destroyed) coming from the upper 2 axils, 2-3 cm, 6-8-flowered, with several small perulae. Rachis stoutish, laxly setulose only. Pedicels glabrous, 3-5 mm, the lowest coming from the axil of a rather small foliaceous bract, (3-6 by 2-3 mm), the upper ones from the axils of less distinctly foliaceous, decrescent ones. Bracteoles inserted above the base or nearly in the middle of the pedicels, subopposite, ovate-oblong, one higher additional bracteole inserted at a short distance from the calyx. Calyx 3 mm, lobes ovate-acuminate, c. 2 mm, glabrous outside, puberulous inside, ciliolate. Corolla urceolate, c. 5.5 mm, glabrous outside, manifestly puberulous inside at least in the lower half, lobes 1-1.5 mm. Filaments laxly +-patently hairy in the middle third; anther-cells not well developed. Ovary glabrous or very sparsely hairy; style glabrous, 2.5 mm.
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