A small shrub, 1.5 ft. high; stems firm, woody, sparingly branched; twigs ascending, glabrous; leaves sessile, oval or ovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse but mucronulate, base rounded, margin scabrous, flat, 0.5 in. long, 0.2 in. wide, quite glabrous; internodes more or less angled, as long as the leaves; flowers dioecious, white, pedicelled, female solitary; pedicels glabrous, stoutish, rigid, 0.17 in. long; sepals elliptic-lanceolate, with a 3-lobate basal scale; petals oblong-obovate, eglandular; ovary glabrous; styles free, 2-fid; capsule subglobose, 0.17 in. across; seeds black, shining. Male flowers not seen.
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