the leaflets discolorous with loose appressed hairs ca. ? mm long above, short pilose and glabrescent beneath, the apical mucro ca. 1/2 mm long; petioles 1-3 cm long, fleshy; rachis hirsute; petiolule 1/2 mm long, fleshy. Inflorescences 2-5, globose, ca. 5 mm diam., 1-7 flowers seen opened to different degrees, peduncles erect, 7-10 cm long, hirsute; bracts subulate, 3-4 mm long, appressed ciliate, subtending the pedicels; bracteoles spirally overlapping, linear triangular, 2.5-4 mm long, 1-nerved, keeled, fine and long ciliate. Flowers with sepals linear, 5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, acute, (7-)9-1 1-nerved, glabrous; petals pink oblong spatulate, basally clawed; stamens with filaments yellow, the longer ones ca. 2 mm long, sparingly glandular pubescent, the anthers ovoid, the shorter filaments with reduced (?) sterile anthers, enlarged in the lower half, filiform above; pistil about equalling the stamens, the ovary ellipsoidal, 5-lobed, the carpels 2-3-ovuled. Capsule (immature) ellipsoidal, 3-3.5 mm long, shorter than the calyx, glabrous; seeds 1-2(-?) in each carpel.
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Decumbent herb or shrub; stems woody, 50 cm long, 3-4 cm diam., finely short pubescent, glabrescent, decumbent, rooting at the base. Leaves 20-22, pseudoverticillate at the end of the stem, linear subcuneate, to 14 cm long, 2.7 cm wide, 7-27 jugate; lower leaflets suborbicular or ovate, 2-3.5 mm long, the middle leaflets oblong rectangular, oblique, 7-11 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, basally truncate or the posterior side curved, secondary nerves 5-7 pairs, prominent beneath, the terminal leaflets elliptic, 8.5-10 mm long, 2.5-5 mm wide, basally truncate, curved on the posterior side, obliquely truncate on the anterior side,
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