Rami purpurascents, elongati, ferrugineo-pubescentes, ramulis ultimis brevibus paucifoliatis glanduloso-pubescentibus. Folia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi rotundata, apice obtuse rotundata vel submucronata, 3-5.5 cm lata integra tenuifer chartacea, supra minute puberula demum fere glabra, infra laxer molbiter pubescentia, nervis laeteralibus [ufruisecus] 4-5 a costa sub angulo 45 abcuntibus, venis obscuris. Inflorescentiae plerumque axillares, racemosae, foliis subtendentibus paullo breviores; pedicelli 3-4 mm longi pubescentes. Sepala triangularia, 0.75 mm longa, breviter pubescentia Espice non publice par Hutchinson et [illegible] de E. nilotica Oliv.