Shrubs. Stems erect, whitish glandular pubescent. Petiole 4.5-5.5 cm, densely glandular pubescent; leaf blade cordate, 6.5-10.5 × 5.5-8 cm, papery, adaxially pubescent, minutely white hispid on veins, abaxially pubescent, base cordate, margin crenate, apex acute; lateral veins 4-paired. Panicles terminal and axillary, to 25-30 cm, densely glandular pubescent; cymes secund, 3-flowered; lower floral leaves subsessile, circular-cordate, ca. 2 cm in diam., base cordate, margin obscurely crenate, apex mucronate; upper floral leaves circular, less than 4 mm. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 × 2 mm, glandular pubescent, slightly 2-lipped; teeth ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, lower 2 slightly longer; fruiting calyx tubular-campanulate, dilated to 5 mm. Corolla pink, ca. 6.5 mm, pubescent, upper lip ca. 2 mm, lower lip ca. 3 mm. Stamens included. Style included. Nutlets brown, triquetrous, oblong, ca. 1.2 mm, glabrous. Fl. and fr. Sep-Oct.
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