Stems woody, erect, freely branched, densely pilose with stout, appressed, ascending, or spreading hairs mostly 1.5-3 mm. long; petioles slender, 5-20 mm. long; leaf-blades thin to firm, ovate-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 3-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute or acuminate, essentially entire, at base narrowly to broadly cuneate or rarely obtuse, 5-nerved, the lateral nerves confluent toward the base, densely or sparsely, usually stiffly, pilose above, beneath softly villous on the surface, more or less strigose on the veins; flowers in small cymes terminating the stem and branches, often very numerous, forming large panicles; hypanthium broadly cam-panulate, 3-3.5 mm. long, 10-ribbed, densely setose, the hairs mostly ascending; sepals triangular-subulate to linear, setose and ciliate, shorter than, equaling, or slightly exceeding the hypanthium, usually recurved; petals white or purplish, 5-7 mm. long; stamens nearly isomorphic; thecae straight, 2-3 or 1.5 to 2.5 mm. long; connectives straight or curved, 0.3-0.7 mm. long, including the small or minute basal lobes; fruiting hypanthia nodding.
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