A shrub up to 1.2 m. tall, with long and short shoots; stems puberulous.. Leaves sessile or subsessile, stipulate; stipules subulate, 1 mm. long, pubescent, at length somewhat indurated; leaf-blade oblanceolate, 1.5–5 cm. long, 0.4–1.5 cm. wide, truncate, obtuse or subacute, attenuate towards the base, repand-dentate in the upper half, ± entire in the lower, lateral nerves 5–7 pairs, sparingly puberulous above and beneath, slightly glaucous.. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal, subdichasial, 2.5–3 cm. long; axis puberulous; bracts triangular, 1 mm. long, ± entire, eglandular, puberulous.. Male flowers: sepals 5, ovate-oblong, 1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate; petals free, obovate, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, obtuse, glabrous without, pubescent within in the lower half, yellow; disc-glands 5, free, oblong, compressed; stamens 8, the 5 outer with the filaments 2 mm. long and united for two-thirds their length, the 3 inner with the filaments 2.5 mm. long and united for three-quarters their length; anthers 0.75 mm. long.. Female flowers: sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm. long, 1–1.2 mm. wide, not accrescent, acute, pubescent without, glabrous within, ciliate, subentire or denticulate; petals oblong, 4.5–5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, obtuse, glabrous without, pilose within in the lower half, yellow; disc glands broad, truncate; ovary ovoid-subglobose, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. diameter, glabrous; styles arising from a disc-shaped stylopodium, connate at the base, 1.5 mm. long, stigmas reniform.. Fruit trilobate-subcylindric, 9–10 mm. long, 8–9 mm. diameter, glabrous, smooth, somewhat glaucous, dehiscing septicidally.. Mature seed not known.
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