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Inflorescence racemose, terminal or axillary, or flowers single in the axils of the upper leaves; pedicels up to 2.5 cm. long; bracts like the leaves but smaller.
Small shrub or perennial herb up to 30 cm. tall, glabrous except for the sepal-margins; branches greenish, longitudinally striate.
Ovary on a slightly sulcate gynophore 2–2.7 cm. long, ovoid; ovules 10–12 on 2 placentas; stigma subsessile, capitate.
Receptacle c. 4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, cylindric, slightly wider at the mouth, longitudinally 10–1 2-ribbed.
Sepals 0.8–1.0 x 0.4–0.5 cm., oblong-spathulate, apex obtuse, mucronulate, margin shortly and densely lanate.
Stamens c. 30; filaments c. 1.8 cm. long; anthers 1.75 x 0.75 mm., oblong.
Petals white, c. 7 x 3 mm., narrowly obovate, apexacute, margin undulate.
Fruit c. 1 cm. in diam., globose, with a persistent stigma, smooth.
Seeds 5–8, c. 5 mm. in diam., irregularly ellipsoid, testa smooth.
Androgynophore very slightly exceeding the receptacle.
