Branches slender, short, erect, at first tomentose, smooth; leaves alternate or sub-opposite, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, 4-5 lin. long, 1-1.5 lin. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous, margins involute, nerves not conspicuous; clusters 2-4-flowered, terminal or subterminal; calyx pubescent outside; tube 7 lin. long, slightly widened above, ribbed; lobes ovate, obtuse, about 1 lin. long, glabrous inside, long-pilose outside; petals 8, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, lanceolate; anthers oblong, 1/2 lin. long; ovary compressed, glabrous; style excentric, filiform, 5 lin. long; stigma penicillate.
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Shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves alternate or subopposite, oblong or lanceolate; involucral leaves similar. Flowers few at branch tips, cream-coloured; hypanthium densely villous, petaloid floral scales 8, anther-like.
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