Clutia katharinae Pax

A shrub, 3-5 ft. high; twigs softly silky with spreading hairs; leaves sessile or nearly so, membranous, lanceolate, somewhat blunt, gradually narrowed to the base, margin slightly revolute, 1-3 in. long, 0.25-0.3 in. wide, when young closely white silky with longish adpressed hairs, at length somewhat glabrescent; flowers dioecious, white, male usually in pairs, female usually solitary; pedicels in both sexes very short; male sepals oblong, silky, with a 3-4 partite basal scale; petals rhomboid, acute, glabrous, long-clawed, about as long as the sepals, with a minute simple basal scale; rudimentary ovary narrow, glabrous; female sepals wide-ovate, acute, silky, with a 2-5-lobed basal scale; petals oblong, a cute, shorter than the sepals, sparingly hairy or glabrous, without a basal scale; ovary densely silky; styles free, glabrous, shortly 2-fid; capsule 0.2 in. across, subglobose, densely silky-velvety; seeds brownish-black, shining.