Heinsia

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves shortly petiolate; stipules +/- completely divided into 2 lobes, subpersistent or eventually falling. Flowers solitary or in lax, terminal, rather large, sweetly scented cymes. Calyx 4-6-lobed; lobes +/- leafy, ovate, to oblong, elliptic or lanceolate; tube turbinate or oblong. Corolla 4-6-lobed, white, with dense yellow hairs around narrow throat forming a star-shaped eye, hypocrateriform; lobes variable, usually finely puberulous, spreading; tube slender, adpressed hairy outside, densely hairy at throat. Stamens 4-6, situated in tube, included; filaments short; anthers linear. Disc small, swollen. Ovary 2-locular; ovules many; style slender, with 2 linear, thickened stigma arms just exserted in long-styled flowers, but only reaching to +/- halfway up tube in short-styled flowers. Fruit slightly fleshy but soon dry, indehiscent, oblong-ellipsoid to subglobose, crowned by persistent calyx lobes, many-seeded. Seeds adhering in 2 masses; strongly foveolate, pitted. x = 11 (polyploidy).