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| Habit : | Shrubs ca. 4 m tall. |
| Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, finely fissured. |
| Branches and Branchlets : | Branches dichotomously spreading; branchlets terete, glabrous. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole sessile or subsessile (ca. 0.2 cm long), glabrous; lamina 3.1-8.9 x 1.1-3.2 cm, ovate-lanceolate with tapering apex with obtuse tip, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib slightly canaliculate; secondary_nerves obscure; tertiary_nerves obscure. |
| Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence long peduncled (2 cm long) umbels, subterminal and axillary; flowers blue. |
| Fruit and Seed : | Berry, 0.4-0.5 cm diameter, globose; seed 1. |