Young branches slender, rufo-tomentose, at length glabrescent. Leaves rather crowded, oblong to ovate- or obovate-oblong, very shortly acute or subobtuse, truncate at the base, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 6–10 lin. broad, papery, scantily hairy on the nerves below when young, soon quite glabrous except for small tufts of hairs in the nerve-axils; secondary nerves about 6–7 on each side, raised below, faint above; transverse veins delicate; petiole 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, rufo-tomentose. Panicles axillary and terminal, few-flowered, not or scarcely exceeding the supporting leaves, finely rufo-pubescent; peduncle very slender, up to 3/4 in. long; bracts minute, ovate, acute; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx slightly over 1 lin. long, sparingly pubescent; sepals ovate-oblong, acute; intracalycular glands 5, minute. Corolla funnel-shaped, very minutely pubescent without; tube 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous in the throat, Suprastaminal calli transversely oblong; lobes lanceolate-linear, as long as or slightly longer than the tube; staminal cone not quite reaching the mouth; anthers 3/4 lin. long, glabrous on the back. Disc shallow. Carpels pubescent on the top; style obconic, minutely papillose; stigma campanulate, with a subulate 2-fid apiculus.
