Coleonema calycinum (Steud.) I.Williams

Shrubs, 1.7-2.7 m, erect, single-stemmed at ground level, forming a large bush. Branches erect, numerous, glabrous, alternate; bark transversely marked with leaf scars. Branchlets erect, slender, numerous, alternate, minutely puberulous, not hidden by the leaves. Leaves 13-19 mm long, 0.7-1 mm broad, linear, acute, glabrous except up the middle of the adaxial surface where sometimes sparsely puberulous, alternate, spreading-erect; hyaline margins narrow, minutely and somewhat sparsely serrulato-ciliolate; abaxial surface convex with two rows of gland dots. Inflorescence solitary, terminal or axiliary; buds sometimes pinkish; flowers 5.5-6.5 mm diam., white, standing open, pedicellate. Bract the uppermost of about seven adpressed scales which increase in size towards the calyx, 1.2 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, sub-deltoid, glabrous; midrib gland-dotted above with a sharp point; margins broadly translucent, ciliate. Bracteoles two 1.2 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, orbicular, glabrous, apex with a sharp or a rounded point; margins broadly translucent, ciliate; adaxial surface pubescent in the middle above. Calyx lobes five, 1.2 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, deltoid, obtuse-sacculate, with a gland at the apex, or acute with a sharp point, glabrous; margins broadly translucent, ciliate; adaxial surface pubescent towards the midrib. Petals five, 3.5-4.5 mm long, obovate, white, soon delapsing; limb 1.9-2.4 mm broad, spreading, with or without one or two hairs and gland dots; claw narrowing to the base, connate with the staminode below and with an elevated groove enfolding the upper part of the staminode. Staminodes five, 1.7 mm long, partly connate with the petal; apex with a small gland. Filaments five, 1.9 mm long, glabrous, acicular. Anthers five, before anthesis 0.7 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, yellow; apical gland minute, sessile, globose. Pollen 45 µ long, 22 µ. broad, ellipsoid. Disc 10-sinuate, narrow, green, equalling the top of the stigma at first and exceeding the ovary by a long way. Stigma 0.3 mm diam., capitate, depressed globose. Style 5-carpellate, 0.8 mm diam., glabrous; carpels with globose apices. Fruit 5-carpellate, 4.5 mm long; carpels glabrous, multi-gland-dotted; horns 1 mm long or less, spreading at 45°. Seed 3.0-3.5 mm long, 1.4-1.6 mm broad, black, shining; aril with a black skin over the apex.