Branchlets glabrous or with the occasional hair. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.8-1.4 cm long, glabrous or with few hairs; blade papery to subcoriaceous, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 2.9-7.8 by 0.8-3.6 cm, 2.2-4.4 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, glabrous, 6-8 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation largely obscure or laxly reticulate. Inflorescence of axillary cymes with flowers clustered at ends, 10-17 cm long; brown puberulent; peduncles 7.5-10.5 cm long; pedicels 3.5-5 mm long. Sepals ovate, 1.3-1.7 by 0.7-0.9 mm, 1.4-2.3 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, brown puberulent. Corolla pinkish or lilac, buds cylindrical, lobes slightly overlapping, open corolla salverform; tube 2.6-4.4 mm long, 1.5-2.9 times as long as sepals, 0.7-1.7 times as long as lobes; lobes linear, 2.8-3.6 by 0.6-0.8 mm; pubescent on tube and lobes outside, pubescent on base of lobes, throat and top of tube inside with downward pointing hairs. Stamens inserted at 1.7-2.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.3-0.7 of tube length; filaments straight, glabrous or shortly pubescent, 1.6-3.7 mm long; anthers with narrow curved tails, 3.6-4.3 by 0.5-0.6 mm, 6-8.6 times as long as wide. Disk of 5 separate lobes, narrowly triangular, apex acuminate, sometimes slightly 3-dentate, 0.7-1 mm long. Ovary 0.8-1 mm long; style 3.8-5.2 mm long; style head 0.7-1 mm long. Fruit linear, thin-walled, glabrous, 6.3-7.7 cm by 6.3-6.7 mm. Seeds: grain 7-7.5 by 1.5-1.6 mm; 13.3-17 mm long.
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