Erect branching shrub to 1·5 m. tall. Branchlets dark when dry with a well-defined pubescent band above each lf-insertion, length of internodes 2-4 × diam. Lvs erecto-patent, 15-25 × 5-7 mm., elliptic- or obovate-oblong, coriac., rather yellowish green (occ. glaucous beneath); lf-bud with long narrow sinus, upper lf-margins diverging rather early; lamina glab., obtuse to subacute, entire, margins cartilaginous. Infls lateral, uppermost us. simple, the lowest often tripartitely branched, > lvs but us. not projecting beyond lfy tip of branch; peduncle short, almost glab. Fls almost sessile, ± opp. Bracts 4-5 mm. long, broad-ovate, subacute, border membr., very finely ciliolate. Calyx hidden within bract, lobes c. 3·5 × 1·5 mm., similar to bract. Corolla white, tube little > calyx, lobes = tube, narrow, subacute. Capsule erect, broadly oblong, obtuse, glab., little > calyx, often < bract.

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