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Much-branched shrub or tree up to S m. tall; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves crowded and overlapping; lamina 10–15 × 3 mm., narrowly ovate or elliptic, apex acute, margin entire, revolute, concealing less than 1/2 of lower surface, base rounded to subcordate, upper surface minutely tubercled, midrib and secondary venation impressed; petiole up to 2 mm. long; stipules absent. Flowers shortly pedicellate, tomentose, in paniculate thyrses; bracts foliaceous or upper reduced and differentiated from leaves; bracteoles, when present, 2, linear to narrowly obovate. Sepals up to 1 mm. long, ovate, acute. Petals inserted at the mouth of the receptacle, about 0·5 mm. long, lamina cucullate, circular, claw cuneate. Disk fleshy with free outer margin. Stamens with anthers 1-thecous. Ovary obconic; style 0·5 mm. long, conic with 3 small erect stigmatic lobes. Fruit 6–7 mm. long, obovoid. Seed 3 mm. long.

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Much-branched shrub or tree up to S m. tall; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves crowded and overlapping; lamina 10–15 × 3 mm., narrowly ovate or elliptic, apex acute, margin entire, revolute, concealing less than 1/2 of lower surface, base rounded to subcordate, upper surface minutely tubercled, midrib and secondary venation impressed; petiole up to 2 mm. long; stipules absent. Flowers shortly pedicellate, tomentose, in paniculate thyrses; bracts foliaceous or upper reduced and differentiated from leaves; bracteoles, when present, 2, linear to narrowly obovate. Sepals up to 1 mm. long, ovate, acute. Petals inserted at the mouth of the receptacle, about 0·5 mm. long, lamina cucullate, circular, claw cuneate. Disk fleshy with free outer margin. Stamens with anthers 1-thecous. Ovary obconic; style 0·5 mm. long, conic with 3 small erect stigmatic lobes. Fruit 6–7 mm. long, obovoid. Seed 3 mm. long.

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Much-branched shrub or tree up to S m. tall; branchlets grey-tomentose. Leaves crowded and overlapping; lamina 10–15 × 3 mm., narrowly ovate or elliptic, apex acute, margin entire, revolute, concealing less than 1/2 of lower surface, base rounded to subcordate, upper surface minutely tubercled, midrib and secondary venation impressed; petiole up to 2 mm. long; stipules absent. Flowers shortly pedicellate, tomentose, in paniculate thyrses; bracts foliaceous or upper reduced and differentiated from leaves; bracteoles, when present, 2, linear to narrowly obovate. Sepals up to 1 mm. long, ovate, acute. Petals inserted at the mouth of the receptacle, about 0·5 mm. long, lamina cucullate, circular, claw cuneate. Disk fleshy with free outer margin. Stamens with anthers 1-thecous. Ovary obconic; style 0·5 mm. long, conic with 3 small erect stigmatic lobes. Fruit 6–7 mm. long, obovoid. Seed 3 mm. long.