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Male flowers: stamens 8; filaments flattened at the base, those opposite the petals shorter; anthers 0·5 mm, long, 2-lobed at the base; disk inconspicuous; vestigial ovary pilose with 2 densely setigerous styles.
Inflorescence of axillary panicles up to 3 cm. long; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous; flowers 4-merous, unisexual, dioecious, pale yellowish; pedicels 2·5 mm. long, very slender.
Evergreen shrub, 0·7 m. tall; young branches minutely puberulous, the older ones glabrous.
Sepals 4, united into a short-lobed cupuliform calyx 0·5–0·7 mm. long.
Petals 4, 2·6 × 1·3 mm., slightly imbricate, elliptic.
Female flowers and fruits not seen.
