Shrub or treelet, 2-6 m high, glabrous. Leaves often inserted on distinct leaf-cushions, obovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 3.5-4.75 by 1.5-2.5 cm, stiff-coriaceous; base cuneate; apex blunt or acute to shortly, broadly, and acutely acuminate, aristu-late; nerves 5-7 pairs; petiole 6-8 mm. Inflorescences axillary, 1-5-flowered, dichasial, 1-2 cm. Pedicels c. 0.5 cm. Calyx 1 1/3-3 mm high, up to about halfway connate, glabrous, lobes acute. Corolla 6-7 mm long, outside glabrous, inside more or less densely hairy in and sometimes above the mouth; lobes acute, 2.5-4 mm. Filaments 1/2-2/3 mm, glabrous; anthers 1.25-1.5 mm long, entirely or partly lax-hairy, appendage of the connective c. 0.1-0.25 mm. Pistil glabrous; style 0.5-3 mm. Fruits usually 1 per axil, flattened-ovoid to obovoid, 2 by 0.75-1.5 cm, septifragal.
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