Densely caespitose. Leaves opposite, crowded, glabrous, ovate, apex obtuse, keeled below, pitted; pits 3-7, apical and marginal on the upper leaf surface. Flowers pale-rose, solitary. Sepals ovate, obtuse, sparsely glandular. Petals narrowly obovate, c. twice the length of sepals. Staminal filaments as long as the petals.

Type: Baltistan, Duthie 10212.

Distribution: Probably endemic to Baltistan; grows at c. 3300 in.

Reported by Stewart, l.c. from Baltistan, under another Duthie number (no. 12202), but I have not seen any specimen.