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Capsule 10–40 × 1·5–4 mm., thin walled, puberulent or hirsute, brown with 8 dark brown ribs, readily and irregularly loculicidal, terete; pedicel 1–10(20) mm. long.
Seeds 0·75–0·8 × 0&,middot;4 mm., pluriseriate in each locule of the capsule, free, pale brown, oblong-ellipsoid; raphe c. 1/6 the diameter of the body.
Stamens 8, the epipetalous ones shorter; filaments 2–5 mm. long; anthers 0·75–2 mm. long, extrorse and shedding pollen outward, not on the stigma.
Robust suffruticose herb or shrub 1–3 m. tall, clothed everywhere with more or less dense erect or appressed pubescence.
Disk raised up to 2 mm., each epipetalous stamen surrounded at its base by a sunken, densely white-hairy nectary.
Style 2–6 mm. long; stigma globose, 1·5–2 mm. in diameter, often slightly elevated above the anthers at anthesis.
Sepals 4, (4)6–13 × 1·5–5 mm., lance-deltoid, puberulent or hirsute, often turning reddish after anthesis.
Petals 6–16 × 4–16 mm., ovate or suborbicular.
Pollen shed in tetrads.
