Twiggy soft shrub 0,6—2,5 m tall; branches pale brown, minutely tomentu-lose, often glabrescent with age. Leaves petiolate; blade subcoriaceous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-20 (-30) x 3-8 (-12) mm, upper surface dark greenish brown, subglabrous to tomentulose, lower surface paler, gland-dotted; secondary nerves not visible above, 2—3 pairs faintly visible below, apex subacute to obtuse, base obtuse to truncate, margin entire; petiole 3 — 10 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 50—100 mm long, of few to several verticils borne terminally and on twiggy side-shoots; verticils 1 — 2-flowered; pedicels about 7 mm long with a pair of minute bracteoles about the middle. Calyx becoming ovoid, inflated, coriaceous, straw-coloured, 12—18 x 7—12 mm, lips 2—3 mm long. Corolla violet-scented, chocolate to purplish brown, 14—18 mm long; tube 6—9 mm long; upper lip 2—3 mm long, about 5 mm broad; lower lip broadly 3-lobed, 5—8 mm long, 8—10 mm broad. Nutlets, excluding the wing, 5—7 mm long, minutely tomentulose; wing broadly elliptiÂcal, about 8x6 mm. Fig. 3:1.
