Saxicolous, soboliferous shrubs or dwarf shrubs 0,5-l(-2) m tall, the virgate branches arising from a woody base; this basal sprawling stem lacking bark on one side (in Transvaal specimens seen). Branches and branchlets pale dirty grey, lenticellate, rough. Leaves deciduÂous, sessile, narrowly elliptic, 6-9 cm long, 1,5-2,5 cm broad, apex attenuate, acute or obtuse, base long-attenuate, margin serrulate, firm, with close lateral veins curving upwards; stipules intrapetiolar, elongate-deltoid. Flowers in sessile (1-) 2-6-flowered pseudumbels on short lateral spurs below new leaf growth; pedicels about 12 mm long in fruit, articulated at the base. Sepals c. 5 mm long, ovate at anthesis; 1 cm long, deep red, flat and spreading in fruit. Petals obovoid, clawed, c. 1 cm long, 7 mm broad, bright yellow. Stamens c. 25-30, with filaments 5 mm long; anthers 2 mm long, opening by longitudinal slits. Carpels 5, atÂtached basally to receptacle; styles fused, terete; stigma capitate. Drupelets oblong-globose, c. 1 cm long, black. Fig. 1: 3; 2: 4.
