Twigs glabrous. Leaves glabrous, ± elliptic, abruptly oblique acuminate with acute, attenuate base and entire, recurved margin, 6-9 by 3-4½ cm; nerves 6-8 pairs meeting in a looped, faintly prominent intramarginal vein; petiole 5-10 mm. Flowers in a lax spike or raceme to 6 cm; axis glabrous. Bracts and bracteoles ?minute, soon caducous. Pedicel less than 1 mm. Calyx entirely divided into semi-orbicular, ciliate, ¾-l½ mm long lobes. Corolla ciliolate, often with some minute hairs on the outside, c. 5 mm. Stamens c. 50. Disk 5-glandular, with the style base minutely pilose. Ovary glabrous, c. 1 mm high; style glabrous except the base, 4 mm. Fruit not known.
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