Hermannia repetenda I.Verd.

Suffrutex, erect, virgate, laxly branched above, ultimate branchlets ending in an inflorescence which often turns slightly aside with a younger branchlet developing below and overtopping it, sparsely pubescent with minute stellate hairs, sometimes with short, gland-tipped hairs intermingled, often also subsparsely hirsute with long, pointed, patent hairs about 1-1.5 mm long arising singly or 2 or more from a bulbous base, apparently caducous or readily broken off. Stipules acuminate to abruptly acuminate, ±5-12 mm long, base broad to subcordate sometimes very oblique and subamplexicaul, pubescence as on branchlets but sometimes denser. Leaves petiolate; blade fairly narrowly to broadly oblong, oblong-obovate or oblong-ovate, cuneate in lower third, 15-40 mm long, 7-20 mm broad, crenate except at cuneate base, 3-nerved at base, nerves impressed above, prominent beneath, subflabellately branched, upper surface finely stellate-pubescent and minutely papillose and usually sparsely to densely pilose with long, pointed hairs, undersurface usually, at least when young, whitish tomentose with fine stellate pubescence; petiole 3-15 mm long, pubescent. Inflorescence terminal, of lax, paniculate cymes; bracts 2-or 3-nate, occasionally the third a long, subulate bract, otherwise like stipules varying from ±5 mm long and acuminate from a fairly broad base, to 14 mm long and abruptly acuminate from a broad, oblique subcordate, decurrent base; peduncles and pedicels with pubescence as on branchlets. Calyx lobed to above middle, about 6 mm long, sinuses broad, texture thin, minutely stellate-pubescent, densely so at base (on cultivated plants?), sometimes long, bulbous-based hairs and short, gland-tipped hairs present. Petals about 7 mm long, narrowed about midway into a claw, blade suborbicular, claw with inrolled margins obscurely ciliate. Stamens about 4 mm long, with filaments cohering at base, hyaline, oblong-obovate, 2.5 mm long, about 1 mm broad near apex, sparsely stellate on shoulders, anthers 2 mm long, ciliate, overlapping filament at base. Ovary 5-lobed, stellate-pubescentes specially along the sutures, rays short, but with longer bristle-like hairs at apex; stipe 0.5 mm. Capsule about 6 mm long, minutely and finely stellate-pubescent between sutures, more coarsely so on sutures.