Small well-rounded shrub to 0.5 m., with mostly rather short spreading flowering branchlets; twigs subterete, glabrous or with very short spreading glandular hairs.. Leaves slightly smaller towards the base of flowering branchlets; petiole 2–3 mm. long, glandular-puberulous in the groove; lamina thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, 2–4.5 cm. long, 0.6–1.5 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous, with 4–8 sometimes obscure pairs of lateral nerves, lowermost more ascending.. Flowers 2–3 per umbel; peduncle 1–2 mm. long; pedicels 2–2.5 mm. long; bract triangular from a shallow cup, 1.5–2 mm. long, ciliolate.. Receptacle 1 mm. long.. Calyx 0.5 mm. long, ciliolate.. Corolla 2–2.2 cm. long, white to yellow tipped red; buds parallel-sided and slightly corrugated to vents, slightly narrowed to base, narrow above vents to a slight apical swelling 6–7 mm. long; tube 6–7 mm. long, with a V-slit to the middle, the surface corrugated with a row of dimples either side of the filament-line, sometimes distinctly papillate along the sutures above; lobes reflexed to revolute, linear-spathulate, slightly dilated at the base.. Stamen-filaments inrolled, dilated at the base, sometimes with minute papillae around basal thickening; tooth 0.5 mm. long and inserted that distance below anther; anthers 4–5 mm. long.. Berry not seen.
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