Shrubs to 1?2 m, the branchlets slender, smooth, glabrous. Leaves ovate subrotund or widely oblong, 7-11 cm long, 5.5-8 cm wide, short acuminate and deltoid apically, the acumen falcate or straight, to 1 cm long, ultimately subacute, basally obtuse or truncate, the costa subplane above with a thin median ridge, subplane beneath, the secondary veins 7-9, arcuate, prominulous beneath, dis-colorous, dark red brown and glabrescent above, beneath glabrous or golden puberulent on the costa and veins, glistening, above honeycomb-like under mag-nification; petioles slender, to 4.5 cm long, ca. 0.15 cm wide; stipules not seen. Inflorescences to 1 cm long, the flowers few, nodding, the peduncle reduced. Flowers (buds only) with the pedicels short, the hypanthium short, campanulate, ribbed, glabrous, the calycine cup short and scarcely measurable, the 4 triangular teeth ca. 1 mm long, carnose, glabrous except puberulent marginally; corolla white with the tube short, ca. 2.5 mm long, subcarnose, pubescent outside, gla-brous within, the lobes 4, oblong, ca. 4 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers ca. 3.5 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm diam., the connective not produced at the apex or base, the filaments compressed; style ca. 5.5 mm long, the 2 stigmas clavate capitate. Fruits not seen.
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