Stem erect, rather stout, obtusely 4-angled, densely strigose; leaf-blades oblong to obovate, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, obtuse or acute, cuneate at base into a slender petiole, multipli-nerved, densely strigose above, subsericeous beneath; inflorescence ample, freely branched, rather crowded, strigose, becoming glandular above, the short pedicels and hypanthium densely glandular with spreading hairs; hypanthium broadly campanulate, 4 mm. long; sepals triangular-lanceolate, 4.5 mm. long, glabrous and entire; petals rotund, 7-8 mm. long; connective of the larger stamens 2.4 mm. long, tangentially flattened; ovary crowned with four quadrate scales nearly 1 mm. high and densely ciliate above.
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