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Ovary linear, subsessile, narrowing into a short purplish style glandular-pubescent at its base; gynophore increasing rapidly after anthesis to about 2.5 mm. in length and the style to about 7 mm.; stigma hardly wider than the style.
Petals 0.7–1.2 x 0.3 cm., pink with the two upper having a cordate, purple-margined spot, narrowly obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed into a basal claw c. ^ the length of the lamina.
Capsule up to 3.5 x 0.3 cm., spindle-shaped, with about 8 longitudinal anastomosing nerves on each valve, with longer purple hairs and shorter glandular hairs; style persistent.
Shrubby, branching, viscid perennial 1–2 m. tall; branches striate, straw-coloured with dark, purplish, long hairs interspersed with short, paler, glandular hairs.
Stamens 6, all fertile; filaments slightly wider at the base, attenuated towards the apex, slightly shorter than the petals; anther-thecae c. 2.5 mm. long, oblong.
Sepals c. 7 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex with a gland at the tip, glandular-pubescent outside.
Raceme dense at first but internodes elongating in fruit; pedicels slender, purplish, glandular-pubescent.
Seeds brown, not ridged, about 2.2 mm. in diam., the cells of the testa arranged longitudinally.