Young branchlets shortly ferruginous-hirsute. Leaf petioles 1-3 mm. long; blades glabrous above except on the densely tomentose midrib, underside rather sparsely clothed with patent ferruginous persistent hairs, linear-oblong, acute and shortly decurrent at the base, rather abruptly contracted into an obtuse cusp about 1.5 cm. long. Flowers solitary (or more?), their pedicels about 2 cm. long, rigid, articulate about 5 mm. above the base, the lower part sericeous, the upper provided with more patent ferruginous hairs. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, ferruginous-sericeous outside, glabrous inside, about 5 mm. long. Petals thick, horizontally expanded, elliptic-oblong and rotundate at the apex, densely golden-sericeous outside, subglaucous inside, pulverulent upwards on both sides. Stamens 1.7-2.0 mm. long. Monocarps black, narrowly ellipsoidic-clavate, 9-10 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad on stipes 6-7 mm. long.
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