a large shrub (tree, ex Niven); branchlets densely crowded, erect or ascending, densely white-puberulous with minute deflexed hairs; leaves 3-nate, crowded, imbricately adpressed, 3/4–1 1/3 lin. long, linear, obtuse, flat, with a raised midrib above, glabrous and smooth or minutely scabrid, often with wrinkled sides in the dried state, subentire or very minutely scabrid on the margins; flowers in terminal clusters of 3–7; pedicels 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; calyx-lobes coriaceous, the larger about 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, very broadly ovate, obtusely pointed, slightly grooved down the back towards apex, glabrous or minutely scabrid; corolla campanulate-globose, glabrous; tube 2/5 lin. long; lobes 1/4 lin. long, rounded or broadly ovate, obtuse; stamens as long as the corolla or slightly exserted; filaments connate; anthers 1/3– 2/5 lin. long, bifid to 1/2-way down, connate below; ovary globose, glabrous; style shortly exserted, 1/4– 1/3 lin. long; stigma 1/3 lin. in diam., crater-like, with or without 4 small papillæ or larger radiating processes at the bottom of the cup. null
