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Inflorescence of short slender racemes up to 1·3 cm. long on older leafless stems and sometimes also in the axils of the leaves.
Male flowers: stamens 8, as long as the petals, flattened at the base, those opposite the petals shorter; ovary vestigial.
Flowers 4-merous, unisexual by abortion, dioecious; pedicels 2–4·5 mm. long, very slender.
Small tree up to 3 m. tall; young branches glabrous, lenticellate.
Sepals united into a very small calyx 0·2 mm. long.
Female flowers and fruit not seen.
Petals 2·4 × 1·1 mm., oblong.
