Notes:
This species is characterized by its small triangular stipules, medium-sized leaves, lax few-flowered infloresecences, short calyx lobes, well developed corollas, and rather large fruits. This species is here circumscribed to include several additional specimens not seen by Puff & Buchner (1994), some of which are from further north than any seen by them, in Antsiranana. Puff & Buchner did not see the corollas of this species; the additional specimens included here have corollas with the tube ca. 18 mm long and the lobes ca. 8 mm long. It may turn out when more flowers are available that two species have been included here, but the specimens cannot currently be separated by any morphological characters.
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