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Staminal tube (2·5) 3·8–5 cm. long, cylindric, glabrous inside; appendages in pairs alternating with the anthers, 3–3·5 mm. long, glabrous outside, filaments not fused at the base.
Ovary 5 (6)-ocular, densely setose-hairy; style 4–5·5 cm. long; style-head conical-cylindric from a broad base, exserted up to 5 mm. beyond the base of the staminal appendages.
Shrub up to 4 m. tall, sometimes scrambling; first-year branchlets densely puberulous with spreading hairs, second-year more sparsely so, purplish-brown or reddish.
Inflorescence with peduncle less than 1 mm. long or flowers (1) 4–6-fasciculate; bracts very small, 1 mm. long, subulate; pedicels 4–10 mm. long.
Capsule 5 × 10 mm., depressed-globose, very shallowly sulcate, leathery, glabrous; aril covering c. 1/6 of seed.
Petals 4–5 × 0·5 cm., linear-spathulate, glabrous outside.
Calyx 2·5–5 mm. long, teeth pubescent.
Leaves mostly in fascicles.
Flowers pure white.
