Quite glabrous shrub; branches divaricate, some short and spiny, marked by lines decurrent from the nodes; leaves solitary or few in fascicles, shortly petioled, ovate, oblong, obovate or almost spathulate, acute or somewhat obtuse, 10 x 4-3 mm, thinly membranous; peduncles solitary or geminate, 8 mm long, elongating in fruit; calyx 2 mm long, cup-shaped; teeth 5, equal, short, acute, ciliate; corolla 6-8 mm long, white; tube contracted below, subcampanulate above; lobes 5, 2 mm long, ovate, glabrous; stamens inserted about 2 mm up the corolla-tube, 4 exserted, the 5th much shorter and included; filaments hirsute towards the base; style filiform, exserted; stigma obconical; berry ovoid or ovoid-oblong, 4-8 mm long, 3 mm in diam., shortly apiculate.
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Shrub or straggler, up to 3 m high, young branches pendulous. Leaves elliptic to narrowlyobovate, 10-23 mm long, glabrous. Flowers bisexual; calyx 2-3 mm long; corolla 8 mm long, white with purple veins; nectary orange-red, inconspicuous. Flowering time Aug.-Dec. Fruit ovoid, red berry.
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