Branchlets puberulous. Leaves 0.6-1.2 cm long, opposite, erect-spreading, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, or lanceolate-ovate, subacute or acute, rounded at the base, flat or very slightly concave above in the upper half, with scattered and marginal glands and a slightly impressed nerve beneath, thickened and scarcely crenulate at the margin, warted above, minutely puberulous above and beneath, becoming glabrous. Flowers 1 or 2 together in the axils of the upper leaves. Peduncles 4-6 mm long, puberulous, subtended by linear-oblong bracteoles. Sepals 2.5 mm long, lanceolate-or deltoid-ovate, gland-tipped, puberulous, with large glands beneath. Petals 4.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cuneate at the base, glabrous. Stamens with filaments sparsely pubescent on the lower half. Staminodes 2 mm long, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, gland-tipped, incurved at the margin, sparsely pilose beneath. Disk crenulate. Ovary with 5 carpels bearing clavate rigidly pubescent processes, glabrous elsewhere. Style sparsely pubescent throughout.
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Shrub or dwarf shrub, up to 1.3 m tall, ± pine-scented. Leaves opposite, ovate or elliptic, ± as long as internodes, with dark gland dots beneath. Flowers 1-4 in axils of leaves, white or pink. Fruit 5-chambered.
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