A shrub of 3–5 feet, rather densely virgate-ramose. Branches rigid, stout, densely clothed with red tomentum, spreading; branchlets with paler almost velvety hairs. Leaves very rigidly coriaceous, 1–2 by 3/4–1 3/4 in., broadly ovate-cordiform, obtuse, margins recurved and waved, upper surface dark green subscabridly pubescent with sunken veins, under surface greenish white velvety tomentose with broad stout reddishly tomentose, midrib and many stout reticulate veins; petiole very short; stipules subulate from a broad base, 1/4 in. long. Flowers as in A. rubiginosus, but calyx-lobes rather more obtuse, 1/5 in. long, and corolla rather shorter and more densely tomentose and of a brighter more orange red, lobes ovate, apiculate. Berry about 2/3– 3/4 in. diameter; seeds 1/3 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla district, in the thickets and rocky woods, alt. 4000–5000 feet, from Mumpulla to Lopollo, Welwitsch!
