Young branchlets subterete, rather stout, densely rusty-tomentose with verticillate-branched hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded or more rarely subacute at the apex, rounded at the base, 2 1/2–4 in. long, 1 1/4–2 in. broad, rusty-tomentellous on both surfaces in a young state, soon becoming glabrous on the upper surface; lateral nerves slightly raised on the upper surface, inconspicuous on the lower; petiole 3–4 lin. long. Umbels axillary, fascicled, sessile, 2–4-flowered; pedicels 1 lin. long; bract broadly ovate or suborbicular, very concave, 1–1 1/4 lin. in diam. Receptacle 7/8 lin. long. Calyx 5/8– 3/4 lin. long, rather irregularly lobed. Buds hardly broadened towards the apex, not winged. Corolla 1 3/4 in. long, sparingly stellate-pilose outside, not distinctly swollen at the base; lobes subspathulate-linear, 8 1/2 lin. long, 5/8 lin. broad above. Filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, 5 lin. long; anthers linear, 2 3/4 lin. long, transversely septate, cells about 9 in each vertical row. Disc about 1/4 lin.high, hardly lobed, minutely and sparingly rusty-pilose within. Style acutely pentagonal, not appreciably thickened upwards; stigma subglobose, nearly 1/2 lin. in diam.
