Small rhizomatous suffrutices consisting of branched or unbranched shoots 30-60 cm high, originating from a woody stock; stems hairy at the base, subglabrous to quite glabrous upwards. Leaves glabrous, oblong to narrowly oblong-elliptic (rarely some basal leaves obovate), maximum size 9x3 cm, petioles up to 5 mm long usually with a few oblique ridges; leaf-blade discolorous, lower surface glaucous, and dotted with glands, upper pale green, nervation more prominent on upper than lower surface, apex subobtuse, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, under stronger magnification the bloom on the lower surface is seen as tiny waxy globules. Inflorescence a dense axillary cluster of flowers or occasionally flowers solitary with a densely bracteate peduncle. Flowers dioecious, scented, up to 1-3 cm long. Male flowers: calyx densely rufous-pubescent, often enclosed below by bracts; lobes 5-7, about as long as the tube. Corolla urceolate 1 cm long, white; lobes refiexed, densely rufous-pubescent outside. Staminodes absent. Stamens about 15-20 in number, in two whorls; anthers often in bundles of 2-3 together at apex of the short connate fi