n = 21

n = 21

Shrub, 0.2-0.7 m tall. Branches decumbent to ascending; branchlets brown to grey, vegetative internodes (3-)10-25(-70) mm long. Stem pubescence uniform, glandular and eglandular, or stems glabrous; eglandular stem hairs patent to recurved. Leaves erecto-patent to spreading; lamina lanceolate, ovate, oblong, elliptic, or rhomboid, firm to coriaceous, flat, folded or concave, (10-)20-50(- 60) × (5-)10-20(-35) mm; apex acute, subacute, obtuse, rounded, apiculate, or truncate; base cuneate; margin green or red, rounded, smooth or sometimes ciliolate at apex, crenate to serrate; marginal teeth or lobes in 5-12(-20) pairs; adaxial surface glabrous or with minute twin-headed glandular hairs on midrib, green to bronze green, glossy to vernicose, without stomata; abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely eglandular-hairy on midrib; pale green to almost white, sometimes pinkish, dull, with very dense stomata. Midrib depressed to grooved above and beneath, or thickened beneath. Petiole narrowly winged in distal half, (5-)10-20(-25) mm long. Inflorescence with (50-)200-700(-1500) flowers, (9-)15-35(-48) cm long; peduncle 2-6(-8.5) cm long; rachis (7-) 12-30(-40) cm long, glabrous, or puberulent or glandular-puberulent; bracts opposite and decussate below, becoming alternate above, subacute, acute, or acuminate, eglandular-ciliate, ovate to deltoid; pedicels glabrous or eglandular- or glandular-puberulent, much shorter than bracts; pedicels 0-1 mm long. Calyx divisions equally deep; calyx (1.5-) 1.8-3.0 mm long; lobes 4, all similar, lanceolate, elliptic, ovate, deltoid, or obovoid, acuminate to obtuse, glandular- or eglandular-ciliate, or with mixed glandular and eglandular cilia. Corolla (6-)8-9(-10) mm diam., white, violet, or mauve at anthesis and after pollination; corolla tube 1.0- 1.5 mm long, 0.7-1.0 mm wide, cylindric to funnelform, shorter than calyx, glabrous; corolla lobes glabrous, or sparsely ciliate; posterior corolla lobe longer than tube, circular to elliptic, obtuse, erect or suberect; lateral corolla lobes elliptic, obtuse, spreading; anterior corolla lobe elliptic, obtuse, spreading. Stamen filaments white, inserted about middle or between middle and base of corolla tube, 1.0-1.5 mm long; anthers yellow. Nectarial disk ciliolate, or glabrous, or glandular-ciliate. Ovary globose to ellipsoid, emarginate, glabrous, eglandular hairy, or glandular hairy, 0.6-1.0 × 0.6- 0.9 mm wide, 0.5-0.8 mm thick. Ovules 14-20 per locule. Style 3.5-4.5 mm long, 0.1-0.2 mm thick, glabrous or with unicellular hairs, white, pink, violet, or mauve. Stigma capitate or sometimes weakly 4- lobed, white at anthesis, 0.3-0.4 mm wide. Capsule turgid or broadly angustiseptate, truncate to emarginate, dark brown, (2.5-)3.0-4.5 × 2.0- 2.5(-3.0) mm, 2.0-2.5(-3.0) mm thick; hairs usually absent, sometimes eglandular, unicellular, or glandular; loculicidal split of capsule extending 1/3-½-way to base. Seeds weakly flattened, fusiform to irregular, winged, weakly rugulose on back, pale to dark brown, (1.0-)1.5-2.4 × (0.5-)0.8- 1.2 mm.