Shrub 2 m, with pubescent twigs. Leaves faintly acuminate to sharply acute, with cuneate to rounded base, pubescent beneath, narrowly elliptic, 3½-7 by ¾-1½ cm; nerves 6-8 pairs, rather inconspicuous, meeting in an intramarginal looped vein; petiole 3-4 mm. Spike 1-flowered. Bracts and bracteoles pubescent, 2 and 1 mm long respectively. Calyx densely pubescent, divided into l-1¼ mm long triangular lobes. Corolla 2-21l2 mm. Stamens 15-20. Disk with the conical style base softly long-hairy. Ovary with same indument as calyx, l¼ mm high; style hairy for its lower half, c. 2 mm long. Fruit long ellipsoid, pubescent, 13 by 5 mm, only seen immature.
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