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Leaves 3-foliolate or simple above; leaflets 2.5–7 x 0.1–1 cm., the lateral leaflets smaller, linear, narrowed to the acuminate apex and cuneate at the base, margin plane or slightly revolute; petiole up to 2.5 cm. long; petiolules up to 5 mm. long, papillose on the upper side.
Inflorescence of few-flowered, lax racemes at the ends of the branches or on short lateral shoots or solitary and axil lary; pedicels up to 5 cm. long, slender.
Receptacle c. 5 x 1.75 mm., glabrous, cylindric but somewhat four-sided, with 2–3 very short, irregular or subulate lobes at its mouth and between the petals.
Ovary on a gynophore up to 2–3 cm. long, ovoid; ovules 10–12 on 2 placentas; stigma subsessile, capitate.
Much-branched, glabrous shrub up to 2.6 m. tall with slender, virgate, striate, greenish branchlets.
Petals whitish, 5 x 2 mm., narrowly obovate, acute at the apex, very shortly clawed at the base.
Sepals c. 1 x 0.5 cm., oblong-elliptic, blunt at the apex, minutely woolly at the margins.
Stamens c. 35; filaments c. 2 cm. long; anthers 1.5 x 0.75 mm., oblong-elliptic.
Fruit up to 1.75 cm. in diam., globose, minutely verrucose.
Androgynophore slightly longer than the receptacle.
Seeds 2–3.
