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Shrubs ca. 1.5 m, evergreen. Branchlets terete, puberulent, glabrescent. Petiole 3-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3-5 cm × 6-11 mm, leathery, glabrous, base attenuate toward petiole, apex acute to acuminate or rarely obtuse; primary veins 3-5 on each side of midrib, obscure. Panicles terminal, compact, 2-4 × 1.5-2.5 cm; rachis puberulent. Flowers sessile or nearly so. Calyx 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla ca. 6 mm; tube ca. 2.5 × as long as lobes. Stamens approaching apex of corolla lobes; anthers ca. 1.2 mm. Fruit unknown. Fl. Apr-May.

* Shady places in ravines; ca. 200 m. Guangxi, Guizhou