Shrub 1-1.5 m; branchlets slender, ± densely rusty-sericeous at the innovations. Leaves lanceolate-ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-3 cm subcaudate-acuminate, subacute and ± falcate at the apex, attenuate into the petiole, slightly decurrent, firmly chartaceous, very young ones covered with golden silky hairs on both faces, mature ones olivaceous-greenish when dry, glabrous and almost shining above, subpersistently ± densely covered with longish, appressed, rusty hairs all over the undersurface specially on the midrib, finally glabrescent, remotely and ± irregularly serrate in the upper half by a few rather sharp teeth, 8-13 by 3.5-5 cm; midrib somewhat prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, nerves 6-8 pairs, curving upwards, obscurely anastomosing near the edge, slightly prominent on both faces, reticulations dense and raised on both faces; petiole rather slender, 1-2 cm, glabrescent. Racemes ramiflorous, dense-flowered nearly to the base, densely ap-pressed-rusty tomentose; rhachis 0.5 mm diam. Bracts narrow-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. Pedicels 1.5 mm, mostly in twos, nearly connate to the top. Perianth lilac-red, c. 6 mm, tube 0.5 mm diam., limb 1 mm diam. Anthers 1.5 mm. Disk glands thick, minute, cushion-shaped, free, close. Ovary densely rufous-pilose; style slender, glabrous. Fruit not yet known.
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