Branchlets densely short tomentose. Leaves opposite; petiole 1.9-3.5 cm long; blade papery to subcoriaceous, ovate, elliptic or obovate, 6.2-23.2 by 3.8-18 cm, 1.1-1.8 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded to cordate, brown velutinous beneath, sparser above, 5-8 pairs of secondary veins, ascending, tertiary venation laxly reticulate. Inflorescence of axillary cymes, 3.3-15 cm long; densely brown appressed velutinous; peduncles 1.6-7.5 cm long; pedicels 1.5-7 mm long. Sepals narrow ovate, erect to reflexed at apex, 1.8-2.9 by 1-1.4 mm, 1.7-2.9 times as long as wide, apex acute to acuminate, densely brown appressed velutinous. Corolla brownish violet and white; buds cylindrical with an acuminate head, lobes slightly overlapping; tube 5.4-7.5 mm long, 2.2-3.3 times as long as sepals, 2-3.3 times as long as lobes; lobes triangular, apex acute, papillate inside, 2-3.5 by 1-1.2 mm; densely brown velutinous on lobes and upper half of tube outside, bearded in throat, densely pubescent in 5 rows down tube inside. Stamens inserted at 3.2-4.8 mm from corolla base which is 0.4-0.5 of tube length; filaments straight or slightly curved, 0.5-1.2 mm long, pubescent; anthers narrowly triangular with broad flat tails, 3.1-3.4 by 0.6-0.7 mm, 4.4-5.7 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, oblong, notched or flat at top, 1.7-2.2 mm long. Ovary 0.6-0.7 mm long; style 3.4-4.5 mm long; style head 1-1.3 mm long. Fruit fusiform, brown pubescent, 9-13.5 by 1.7-3 cm. Seeds: grain 13-15 by 2.1-2.6 mm; coma 1.4-3.3 cm long.
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