Shrubs ca. 2 m tall; petioles and cymes densely brown stellate tomentellous. Branchlets yellowish gray, terete. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 7-16 X 2-5 cm, densely small yellowish glandular, subglabrous to adaxially sparsely yellowish brown stellate tomentellous along midvein and lateral veins, base narrowly cuneate, margin irregularly serrate, apex acuminate. Cymes 2-3 cm across; peduncle 4-7 mm; bracts small, linear. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 0.7 mm, subtruncate to obscurely dentate, usually glabrous, yellow glandular. Corolla purple, ca. 1.4 mm, glabrous. Stamens usually 2 X as long as corolla. Ovary glabrous, yellow glandular. Fruit ca. 1 mm in diam., yellow glandular. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct.

* Mixed forests on mountain slopes or in valleys; 800-2300 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.