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Shrub, 1.2-3.5 m high, with long wand-like branches. Stipules short, broad, auriculate, auricles of same texture and colour as leaves. Bracts lanceolate-oblong, usually navicular. Leaves opposite and decussate; varying in size, dark green, shiny, glabrous and not rugose above, whitish tomentose beneath; blade ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate to acute, margins finely serrate; petioles distinct. Inflorescences paniculate, axillary and terminal. Flowers whitish; corolla white, orange-yellow, lilac or salmon-coloured, with orange throat. Fruit a small capsule.
Corolla creamy, white with orange throat, orange–yellow, lilac, or salmon, with erect lobes 4–5 times as long as the calyx, 7–11 mm. long, outside whitish–tomentose with short stellate hairs, sometimes partially glabrescent, inside pilose with simple hairs from near the apex of the ovary to just below the insertion of the stamens; tube nearly cylindrical, 3·3–4·5 times as long as the calyx, 3·5–6 times as long as the lobes, 5·5–9 x 1·2–2 mm.; lobes oblong or subcircular, mostly slightly longer than wide, 1·5–2 x 1·2–1·8 mm., rounded, entire, spreading.
Shrub, 2-7 m high. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate to ovate-oblong, 28-120 mm x 10-50 mm, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, margins finely serrate, upper surface dark green, shiny, glabrous, lower surface tomentose; petioles deeply channelled, 3-10 mm long, bases not prominent. Stipules conspicuous, auriculate. Flowers: in axillary and terminal cymose panicles; stamens included; corolla ± 6 mm long, white with orange throat, orange-yellow, lilac or salmon-coloured; Apr.-Aug.
Leaves opposite, petiolate; petiole 3–11 mm. long, stellate–tomentose; stipules foliate, sometimes reduced to a line, elliptic or ovate or narrowly so, 2–5 times as long as wide, 2–13 x 0·5–5 cm., acuminate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, serrate or sometimes entire and revolute at the margin, dark green, shiny, glabrous, almost bullate above, whitish–tomentose with short stellate hairs (often drying rusty) beneath; venation conspicuous, reticulate, much impressed above.
Pistil much shorter than the corolla tube, 2·2–4·3 mm. long; ovary subglobose or ovoid, laterally compressed, 0·9–1·5 x 0·7–1 x 0·6–0·9 mm., shortly stellate–tomentose, 2–celled; style included, stellate–tomentose at the base, 0·5–1·7 mm. long; stigma large, clavate or sometimes capitate, 0·3–1·2 x 0·3–0·5 mm.
Shrub, up to 2.7 m high. Leaves distinctly petioled, rounded or auneate at base, shiny and glabrous above. Stipules conspicuous, auriculate; petiole bases not prominent. Corolla tube long, cylindrical; stamens included. Flowers whitish, white with orange throat, orange-yellow, lilac or salmon-coloured.
A shrub or tree. It grows 4 m high. The leaves are shiny and deep green above and silver underneath. The flowers are small but occur in large spikes. They are cream or orange and have a sweet smell. The fruit is a small capsule that splits when ripe.
Stamens included, inserted at 2–2·5(–3·5) mm. from the corolla mouth; filaments short, 0·3–1 mm. long; anthers oblong or nearly so, 0·9–1·2 x 0·3–0·4 mm., rounded or obtuse at the apex, deeply cordate at the base, glabrous; cells parallel.
Calyx green, campanulate, 1·5–2·2 mm. long, outside whitish–tomentose with short stellate hairs; tube 1–2–4 times as long as the lobes; lobes subequal, often broadly triangular, 0·5–1 x 0·8–1 mm., acute or subacute, entire.
Capsule ellipsoid, 2·4 x 1·5–2 x 1·2–1·5 mm., laterally compressed half exserted from the calyx, hairy like the ovary but less densely.
Seed medium brown, obliquely polyhedral, 1·2–1·5 x 0·6–0·7 x 0·3–0·4 mm., reticulate, narrowly winged.
Inflorescence terminal and axillary, large, paniculate, many–flowered, 3–25 x 2–20 cm., rather lax.
Branchlets stellate–tomentose with short whitish hairs, subangular or terete.
Shrub 0·50–3·50 m. high, semiscandent, sometimes a small tree.
Flowers sweet–scented, shortly pedicellate or subsessile.
In each cell one axile placenta with 10–15 ovules.
