Branchlets glabrous, hispidulous or rarely pubescent. Leaves 3.5-7 mm long, alternate, ascending, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse and navicular at the apex, rounded at the base, concave above, rounded and sometimes nerve-keeled beneath, with scattered glands, glabrous, ciliate at the base or with a few hairs above on the lower half. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.7-1.2 cm long, glabrous, hispidulous or pubescent, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, obtusely keeled, ciliolate, sometimes sparsely pubescent beneath on the lower half, or pubescent above. Petals 3-4.5 mm long; blade obovate or rotund; claw as long or almost so, narrowly linear or subfiliform, glabrous or ciliolate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2-3.5 mm long, oblanceolate-or linear-oblong, obtuse, with a gland behind the apex, tapering and ciliate towards the base. Ovary glabrous, with 2 or rarely 3 carpels bearing rotund processes. Style glabrous.
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Single-stemmed, dense, rounded shrub to 2 m, lemon-scented. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, mauve, pink or white. Fruits 2-chambered.