Flowers dichlamydeous hermaphrodite. Flower-tube short. Sepals 4, imbricate, ovate, acute. Petals 8, in two rows, persistent, twice the length of the sepals, alternating with as many glands. Stamens 20–30, emerging from the base of the flower-tube, arranged in bundles opposite to the petals; filaments thread-like pilose; anthers subglobose. Ovary hirsute, free or nearly so, oblong, 1-celled; style short, dividing into three long, pilose, filiform branches; ovules few, attached near the top of the ovary to 3 or 4 parietal placentas. Fruit coriaceous indehiscent. A shrub with alternate, stalked glandular-crenate leaves. Stipules falciform deciduous. Flowers in long axillary spikes.