branches, leaves, peduncles, and calyx densely clothed with short pubescence; leaves very short-petioled, elliptical, or orbicular, emarginate, sub-entire or minutely serrulate, coriaceous, veiny at both sides; umbels axillary, shortly peduncled; petals glabrous. The terete branches and horizontal twigs grey with short pubescence. Larger leaves uncial, 8–12 lines wide, mostly smaller, 6–9 lines long, 5–8 wide, acutely emarginate, the marginal teeth scarcely discernible by the naked eye. Petiole 1/2–1 line long. Common peduncle equalling the petiole, or longer. Calyx lobes obtuse. Petals twice as large, elliptic-orbicular, longer than the stamens. Ovary immersed in a sinuous disc. Style short. Fruit wanting.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Banks of the Crocodile River, Burke! 378, Zey.! 309. Nov. (Herb. Hook., Sond.)
