Treelet; tips of the branchlets rufous-pilose, glabrescent. Leaves broadly oblong, apex shortly rather abruptly acuminate, obtuse, cuneate and decurrent into the petiole, subsessile, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, olivaceous and ± shining above when dry, paler and ± dull beneath, glabrous, entire, 16-19 by c. 1 cm; midrib prominent on both faces, nerves 6-7 pairs, curved upwards, rather spaced, it distinctly inarching before the edge, slightly prominent above, more conspicuously so beneath, reticulations dense and slightly raised on both faces; petiole thick, rugose, 2-3 mm. Racemes apparently ramiflorous, dense, 12-16 cm, rather laxly clothed with appressed, rufous hairs on rhachis and pedicels, very laxly so on the perianth; rhachis 1.5 mm diam. Bracts ovate-acuminate, acute, c. 1 mm. Pedicels slender, mostly in twos, free or connate at the very base, 6-7 mm in anthesis. Perianth 11 mm, tube 0.6 mm diam., glabrous or subglabrous, limb clavate 1½ mm diam. Anthers 2 mm. Disk glands subqua-drangular, connate into a crenate cup. Ovary glabrous; style slender. Fruit unknown.
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