Much branched. Young parts densely rusty-tomentose with branched hairs. Branchlets nodose, greyish, scurfy; internodes 1/4– 1/2 in. long. Leaves opposite, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, rounded, truncate or subcordate at the base, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/3–1 1/4 in. broad, coriaceous, upper surface scurfy-puberulous, with slightly sunk midrib, lower rusty-tomentose; petiole 3/4 lin. long. Racemes longer than the leaves, up to 2 in. long, densely rusty-tomentose; pedicels 1 lin. long; bract cymbiform, 1 lin. long, densely rusty-tomentose outside. Receptacle and calyx together 1 lin. long, rusty-tomentose. Corolla densely rusty-pubescent outside; tube 4 1/2–5 lin. long, slightly constricted above the base; lobes spathulate-linear, 11 lin. long, 3/8 lin. broad about the middle, 1/2 lin. broad above. Stamens inserted 2 1/2 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes; filaments 6 lin. long; anthers linear, 1 3/4 lin. long. Style slender, pentagonal, 1 1/4 in. long; stigma compressed, broadly elliptic, 3/8 lin. long.
