Shrub or tree, glabrous the inflorescences excepted. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acutely and long-attenuate to caudate at the apex, cuneate or subrotundate at the base, entire or obscurely distantly crenate, firmly chartaceous, shining, 6-11 by 2-4¼ cm; nerves c. 10 pairs, prominent on both sides, veins very numerous densely reticulate; petiole 3-4 mm. Racemes spike-like, densely pilose, 10-20 cm; pedicels, if any, very short (up to 0.5 mm). Flowers 6-merous; bracts scariose, 1.5 mm. Calyx-tube obconical, short. Sepals and petals linear, c. 1.5 and 2 mm, densely set with rather patent longish hairs.
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