毛柄木犀 mao bing mu xi

Shrubs ca. 3 m. Branchlets, bracts, and pedicels puberulent. Petiole 1.2-1.5(-1.8) cm, puberulent, glabrescent; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 6.5-9 × 2-3 cm, thick leathery, glabrous, base narrowly cuneate, margin entire, apex long acuminate; midrib adaxially deeply impressed, abaxially obviously raised; primary veins 6 or 7 on each side of midrib, obscure. Cymes fascicled in leaf axils, with 1 or 2 buds per axil and ca. 5 flowers per bud; bracts 2.5-3 mm. Pedicel 3-5 mm. Calyx ca. 1.5 mm; lobes ca. 1 mm. Corolla white; tube ca. 1 mm; lobes ca. 1.5 mm. Stamens attached to base of corolla tube; connective elongated into a deltate mucro. Drupe not seen. Fl. Sep.

* Sandy soil on slopes. Guangdong