Slender many-branched shrub to 3 m. tall. Lvs c. 5·5 × 2 cm., elliptic, entire, tapering to ± acute tip, on petioles c. 1 cm. long; margins slightly recurved; upper surface glab. except for minute hairs in groove of midrib, smooth; lower surface whitish with close sessile short-rayed stellate hairs, only principal veins obvious, long hairs few and simple and on veins only. Infl. a much-branched rather open ± conical corymb up to 10 cm. across; bracts broad, scarious; pedicels c. 4 mm. long. Fls pale, calyx-tube hairs mostly sessile, short-rayed, stellate and crowded, long hairs few and simple; sepals c. 2 mm. long, falling early; petals white, limb truncate to cordate at base, standing erect; stamens > petals, connective produced beyond anther into sharp tip; style divided to < 1/2 length; capsule 3 × 2*5 mm., c. 1/2 immersed in calyx-tube, soon becoming reddish and losing hairs from free part of ovary; operculum c. 1/2 length of coccus; seeds almost black, shining, c. 1·5 × 1 mm.

2n = 36

2n = 36

2n = 36

2n = 36

Slender erect shrub to 3 m high. Adult and juvenile lvs petiolate; lamina 20-70 × 10-30 mm, ± elliptic; upper surface glabrous except for scattered simple hairs around sunken midrib; lower surface with fine grey stellate tomentum and scattered simple or large stellate hairs on veins; margins entire, slightly revolute; stipules 4-5 mm long, deciduous. Infl. an open, much-branched, terminal corymb. Calyx reflexed, pale greenish; tube with scattered long, white, simple hairs until after anthesis. Petals cream; limb broad. Anthers oblong. Ovary with stellate hairs at apex, wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying c. 1/2 of their inner faces.