Youngest branchlets rusty-tomentose with much-branched hairs, older ones pubescent, finally glabrous, 1/2 in. in diam. or less, lenticellate. Leaves broadly ovate or elliptic-oblong, very obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse or rounded and unequal at the base, 2–5 in. long, 1–3 1/2 in. broad, coriaceous, minutely stellate-puberulous above in a young state, soon becoming glabrous, minutely stellate-pubescent or puberulous below, dull on both surfaces; petiole 4–13 lin. long. Heads dense, sessile, densely rusty-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs; bract broadly ovate or suborbicular, 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous inside. Receptacle 1 1/8–1 1/4 lin. long. Calyx 1/2– 5/8 lin. long, truncate. Corolla 2–2 1/4 in. long, straight, split unilaterally, rusty-villous-tomentose with very unequal verticillate-branched hairs 1 lin. long or less, basal swelling inconspicuous, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; tube glandular within; lobes erect, spathulate, 8–8 1/2 lin. long. Filaments inserted 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 6 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, 1 1/8–1 1/2 lin. long; cells about 5 in each vertical row. Disc small, pentagonal, rusty-pilose. Style glabrous, skittle-shaped above, neck 1 3/8 lin. long; stigma capitate, 1/4 lin. in diam. Berry ellipsoid, 6–7 lin. long, 4 lin. in diam., apical cup hardly 1/2 lin. long.