Slender shrub, 1 m. Twigs densely ferrugineous-hairy; internodes with a few tiny cataphylls. Leaves mostly in pseudo-verticils, spathulate, with rather rounded apex, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, 1½-4½ by ½-2 cm; nerves 4-6 pairs, on both surfaces prominent; base attenuate, a petiole hardly discernible. Pedicels 6 mm. Flowers functionally female, deep purple. Sepals 5, free, ovate-oblong, blunt, long-hairy, 5 by 2.5 mm. Petals 5(-6), cohering at base, ligulate, glabrous, bent outwards, apex rounded, c. 12 by 2.5 mm. Stamens reduced, c. 3 mm. Ovary densely brown-hairy, ellipsoid, 4 by 2 mm; style glabrous 1 mm. Fruit red to deep-brown. Fruit solitary, pseudo-terminal, later subterminal, on a rather stout glabrescent peduncle 5-8 mm long, ellipsoid, when young shortly stipitate and rostellate, 2.5-3 by 1½ cm, glabrescent, red (drying orange-yellow); valves outside rugose, inside without transverse ribs and set with funicles all along their length. Seeds c. 8, semi-reniform, 5 mm, on rather long funicles, reddish brown, drying black.
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