Treelet or shrub; tips of the branchlets tomentose by crisped ferrugineous or later greyish hairs, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, shortly obtusely acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, very young ones ± appressed-rufescent hairy specially on the midrib beneath, soon entirely glabrous, subcoriaceous, olivaceous-yellowish and dull when dry, entire or with 1-2 teeth on each side, somewhat recurved at the margin, l.8-2.4 by 0.8-1.2 cm; midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves c. 5 pairs rather straight below, curved upwards to the edge, very slightly impressed above, raised beneath, reticulations rather obscure; petiole 0-2 mm. Racemes solitary, ramiflorous, 5-6.5 cm, dense; rhachis stoutish, 1.5 diam., laxly rufescent-pilose as are the pedicels. Bracts minute, lanceolate, caducous. Pedicels mostly in twos, connate at the base, 4-6 mm. Perianth 30 mm, with some rufous hairs at the base, glabrous elsewhere, tube ¾ mm across, limb gradually clavate, 4 mm by 1.8 mm. Anthers c. 4 mm. Disk glands ovate, close, connate at the base only. Ovary glabrous; style slender. Fruit unknown.
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