Small tree, 3 m; branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly rather abruptly acuminate at the apex, subacute or obtuse, broadly cuneate and decurrent into the petiole, thinly coriaceous, somewhat shining and dark red-brown on both faces when dry, glabrous, rather regularly subserrate-denticulate, 8-12 by 4-6 cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves c. 10 pairs, coming from the midrib at +-right angles, straight below, curved upwards and anastomosing before the edge, slightly prominent on both faces, reticulations very dense, finely but well visibly raised on both faces; petiole 0.5-1 cm, winged nearly to the rugose and thickened base. Racemes (one seen) ramiflorous, c. 15 cm, ± densely covered with appressed, rufous, very short subsetose hairs on rhachis and pedicels, laxly so on the perianth; rhachis terete, rather slender, 1-1 1/3 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acuminate, minute, hairy. Pedicels solitary or in twos, connate at the very base, rather slender, 3 mm. Perianth green, changing to violet at the base, 22-23 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb elongate-ellipsoid, subacute, 1.5 mm diam. Anthers c. 2 mm. Disk glands sub-quadrangular or obovate-truncate, free, close, upper margin minutely denticulate or crenulate. Ovary glabrous; style slender, elongate-clavate towards the apex. Fruit unknown.
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