Branchlets pilose. Leaves 0.5-1.2 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, acute, rounded at the base, slightly concave, convex or flat and smooth above, usually somewhat revolute and crenulate with gland-based rather rigid cilia or glabrous, with a prominent nerve and scattered glands beneath, sometimes with a few long hairs on the nerve, often swollen behind the apex. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 3-6 mm long, scabrid, glabrous or with occasional hairs, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5-2.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, obtusely keeled, ciliate or glabrous. Petals 4-5 mm long; blade oblong-elliptic; claw 1-1.5 times as long, narrowly linear, sparsely ciliate near the base or glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3-4.5 mm long, linear-oblong in the upper half, obtuse, concave above, narrowly linear and ciliate in the lower half, with a conspicuous gland behind the apex. Ovary glabrous, or pilose on the apex, with 2 carpels bearing oblong sparsely pilose or glabrous processes.
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Slender, single-stemmed, loosely branched shrub to 60 cm, herb-scented. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, white or mauve. Fruits 2-chambered.