Clutia platyphylla Pax & K.Hoffm.

A small shrub; stems 1 ft. high or less, fastigiately branched; twigs angular, tawny pubescent at first as are the young leaves, at length almost glabrous; leaves shortly petioled, close-set, ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, base rounded or subcordate, margin slightly recurved, 0.75-2 in. long, 0.67-1 in. wide, firmly papery to subcoriaceous, when young faintly pellucid-punctate, not warted; midrib and main-nerves beneath very distinct; flowers dioecious, greenish-white, male 1-3, female not seen; pedicels up to 4 in. long, capillary, pubescent; male sepals rounded, pubescent outside, obtuse, with a 4-5-lobate basal scale; petals rhomboid-orbicular, shortly clawed, glabrous, eglandular, but each with 6-8 free glands attached to fundus of calyx within their point of origin; rudimentary ovary glabrous, cylindric, expanded at the tip.