Chironia jasminoides L.

Suffrutices from 30-90 cm tall. Stems simple or little branched, erect, quadrate to subquadrate, the angles narrowly winged (decurrent leaf-bases), remotely leafy or fairly densely so in the lower portions. Leaves more or less erect, variable in shape, narrowly ovate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong or linear, from shortly narrowed to long acuminate to an obtuse or acute apex, 2-7 cm long and 1-14 mm broad, in dried specimens the surface is wrinkled and rough, margins narrowly revolute, base broadly cuneate. Inflorescence of terminal simple or few-flowered cymes one to several-branched, branches usually erect or ascending and developing monochasially; pedicels smooth 1-10 cm long. Calyx 1.2-1.7 cm long, about as long or longer than the corolla-tube, lobed almost to the base, lobes ovate-lanceolate usually long attenuate, the upper half subulate, acute(rarely broadly narrowing to a subobtuse apex ), keeled, margins, at least towards the base, membranous. Corolla 2.4-3.8 cm long; tube cylindrical with a slightly narrowed neck-like portion and then widened at the mouth, many-nerved, 9-14 mm long; lobes variable, ovate, elliptic, narrowly oblong or obovate, very acutely to bluntly acuminate or broadly rounded at the apex, 1.7-2.5 cm long and 4-7.5 mm broad. Stamens inserted about 2 mm below the rim; filaments 3-5 mm long, anthers straight, narrow, more or less quadrate, 5-9 mm long. Ovary about 1 cm long narrowly subcylindrical, narrowing into the style which is about as long as to longer than the ovary, usually somewhat curved and slightly widened at the apex with a terminal stigma. Fruit shiny brown to black, narrowly subcylindrical and acuminate at the apex.