The essential parts of Hooker's description are: "Woody, rigid, branching, prostrate shrub, with numerous small white flowers . . .Stems 3-6 inches long, much branched; branches short, rigid, pubescent. Leaves 1/4 inch long, crowded, opposite, the bases of each pair united by two small blunt stipules, very coriaceous, elliptical, ovate or spathulate, blunt, nerveless, quite glabrous, entire and shining. Flowers 1 line long, two to three together, on axillary, stout, pubescent pedicels, which are shorter than the leaves, and furnished with opposite, subulate connate bracts. Calyx of five oblong, blunt, ciliated sepals. Corolla with a short tube and five veined, rounded, spreading, imbricated lobes, villous at the mouth. Stamens 5; filaments slender; anthers deeply two-lobed from the base upwards. Ovary very small, low, depressed; style erect, with a short club-shaped stigma . . . Northern Island. Ruahine Mountains, Colenso . . . I have seen no fruit of this plant, nor can I determine the nature of the ovariusm . . . It may prove to be a species of Geniostoma."
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