Triaspis erlangeri Engl.

Small much branched erect shrub, up to 2 m. or more high, with branchlet-tips twining; younger stems canescent from appressed or somewhat spreading hairs, very soon glabrescent. Leaf-lamina elliptic, elliptic-oblong, lanceolate-oblong, rarely ovate-oblong, (2.5-) 3-4.5 (-6) x (1.3-) 1.8-2.5 (-3.5) cm., obtuse or subobtuse, cuneate, subcoriaceous, usually with involute edges, concolorous, pale green to yellowish when dried up; petiole 3-9 mm. long, pubescent or glabrous, slightly canaliculate. Flowers in 4-8-flowered loose corymbs terminating annual branches, 1.25-1.5 cm. in diameter; bracts linear, 3-5 mm. long. Sepals ovate or oblong-ovate, +/- 2 mm. long. Petals white, pinkish, or white and tinged with pink, broadly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4-5 mm. long, shortly clawed. Anthers broadly elliptic, 0.8-1 mm. long; filaments thread-like, 3.5-4.2 mm. long. Styles +/- 5 mm. long, glabrous. Samara elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long and 1.1-2 cm. broad, entire or slightly retuse at apex; dorsal wing reduced to a tiny crest or absent. Fig. 4/7, 8, p. 15.