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A hispidulous-puberulous evergreen shrub of no great size. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, more or less acuminate, obtuse rounded or obliquely subauriculate (the upper ones sometimes narrowed) at the base, glabrate above, obsoletely velutinous beneath, thinly coriaceous, 3–7 by 1–3 in., lateral veins about 6–8 pairs; petiole 1/8– 1/5 in.; stipules ovate acute erect, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. Flowers about 6–7 in. long, sweet-scented, about 3–6 together (sometimes more numerous), on short pedicels in abbreviated axillary racemes. Bracteoles lanceolate, very acute. Calyx-limb about 1/8 in. long, puberulous, 5-cleft; teeth ovate, acuminate. Corolla-tube scattered with short slender hairs; lobes 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, white. Ovary 2-celled. Fruit ellipsoidal, glabrate, terete, 1 in. long, 2-celled, rounded at the base. Seeds compressed, 1/4 in. long.