LOURENS TRADING CC
Shrub or tree 1¿5¿10(12) m. high, much branched, sometimes scandent, unarmed, glabrous, without latex, very variable; branches ¿ markedly lined when young, becoming terete. Leaves not fasciculate, petiolate; lamina pale green or silver-green to dark green and sometimes glossy above, concolorous or sometimes paler below or whitish-glaucous below or on both surfaces, (1¿1)3¿2¿13(20) ¿ (0¿9)1¿2¿7¿5(11) cm., ovate or lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate or circular or oblate, acute to rounded at the apex, with margin glandular-denticulate to spinose-dentate or subentire, rarely reflexed or indurated, cuneate-angustate or rarely truncate to subcordate at the base, coriaceous to chartaceous, with 6¿9 lateral nerves and reticulate venation varying in density and prominence; petiole 2¿8(15) mm. long. Cymes fasciculate, sessile or rarely with peduncle up to 2 mm. long, in axil of foliage leaves; pedicels 2¿9(15) mm. long, articulated at the base or in the lower 1/3; flowers 2-c. 30 in each fascicle or rarely solitary, 4¿8 mm. in diam., fragrant. Sepals 5, unequal, 0¿7¿1¿5(2) mm. long, ovate to semicircular, rounded, sometimes tinged red. Petals white to cream or pale yellow, 1¿5¿3(5) mm. long, oblong or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, sessile or shortly unguiculate, with margin entire or eroded-denticulate, often ¿ crisped. Stamens 5, with filaments 0¿7¿2 mm. long, not or scarcely flattened, united with the base of the disk. Disk 5¿10-lobed or subentire, flat or with thin free upturned margin or rarely somewhat convex. Ovary 3-locular, subglobose, c. 1/3-immersed in the disk; style elongate or almost absent; stigma shortly 3-lobed. Capsule white or pinkish-red to yellow or orange, 4¿7(10) mm. long, obovoid to subglobose or 3-gonous, with lobes rounded or carinate, smooth, not fleshy. Seeds orange-brown, completely or almost completely enclosed by an oblique aril.
