Young branches finely rusty-pubescent, compressed at the tips, soon terete. Leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, attenuated into a long acute acumen (up to almost 1 in. long), shortly acute or obtuse at the base, 2 1/2–5 in. long, 1 to almost 2 in. broad, thinly papery, very sparingly and minutely pubescent below on the nerves or quite glabrous; secondary nerves 5–6 on each side, but particularly below; reticulation very loose; petiole pubescent, slender, 2–3 lin. long. Panicle subterminal, ovoid, about 1 in. long (without the peduncle), rusty-pubescent; peduncle slender, much compressed, about 1 in. long; bracts minute; pedicels 1 lin. long. Calyx 3/4 lin. long; sepals broad ovate, subobtuse, thin, delicately and sparingly pubescent, eglandular. Corolla-tube slightly wider above the middle, 1 1/2 lin. long, finely tomentose outside; throat-scales rotundate-ovate, 1/3 lin. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, slightly longer than the tube. Anthers 1 1/4 lin. long. Carpels delicately velvety.
