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Stem of unknown length (tops only collected), up to 1 cm thick, glabrescent or sparsely crispate-setulose above. Leaves obliquely elliptic or ovate or obovate, 8-20 by 5-10½ cm, cuneate-attenuate at base, apex rounded and shortly apiculate or narrowed and shortly acuminate, margin undulate-denticulate, glabrous above, almost glabrous below except for some short setulae on the midrib, sparsely setulose below when young, thin in texture; midrib sometimes rather broad towards base; main nerves 2-4 pairs; petiole 2-3 cm, glabrescent to rather densely and shortly crispate-setulose. Inflorescences borne singly in the uppermost 1-2 axils, capitate to scorpioid, 10-30-flowered, dense and compact, 2-4 cm long; peduncle 7-8 mm, setulose. Bracts membranous, the lower ones broadly elliptic-ovate, 10-13 by 7-10 mm, glabrous. Flowers 10-15 mm long. Calyx-tube ellpsoid, 7 by 3 mm, gradually narrowed below into the short pedicel (which elongates later). Sepals obovate, 4-7 by 2-3½ mm, rounded or retuse, erose-denticulate. Corolla 3-4 mm long, gamopetalous to about ⅓-½, fleshy; segments ovate, obtuse to subacute, recurved at apex. Filaments 1.5-2 mm; anthers linear-oblong, 1.5 mm, connivent round stigma. Style thick, 2 mm, narrowed upwards; stigma discoid-capitate, 5-lobulate, 1.5 mm diam., 1 mm thick. Fruit ellpsoid-obovoid, 8 mm.
