Epiphytic shrub with semi-rigid branches;  branchlets brownish, minutely puberulous, becoming glabrous and cinerous;  petioles subrugose, 1-2 mm long; leaf-blades thick-coriaceous, ovate, 15-35 x 7-16 mm, rounded or lightly subcordate at base, obtuse at apex, entire at margins, glabrous;  3-plinerved from base, the nerves obscure or elevated beneath, the veinlets obscure; pedicels 14-18 mm long;  flowers 4-merous, glabrous;  calyx tube obconical, about 1.8 mm long and 1.5 mm diam. at anthesis;  limb erecto-patent, 1-1.5 mm long; lobes deltate, subacute, ca. 0.8 mm long;  corolla cylindric, about 8 mm long and 1.5-2 mm diam., the lobes deltate-ovate, subacute, ca. 1 mm long;  stamens 8, subequal, nearly as long as corolla;  filaments 4-4.5 mm long, pilose, the hairs pale, about 0.4 mm long;  anthers 3 mm long;  tubules about twice as long as the locules.  Berry ellipsoid, 4-6 mm long and 2.5-3 mm diam.

     Distribution.  Vicinity of Mt. Roraima (Venezuela, Guyana-Brazil boundary area), probably present day Venezuela.  Rare.