A small shrub; branches subsimple, stout, terete, glabrous; young shoots produced in fascicles, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves obovate or suborbicular, rounded or truncate at the apex, very obtuse or slightly cuneate at the base, 2–6 lin. long, 2–4 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, branched, slightly prominent below; veins slightly prominent below, rather lax; petiole 1/2 lin. long; stipules linear-lanceolate, equalling the petiole, membranous, brown, margin jagged. Flowers diœcious, clustered on extremely short lateral branchlets produced in fascicles on the older wood. Male flowers: bracts membranous; pedicel very slender, 2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 6, unequal, obovate or oblong, 1/2 lin. long, membranous, glabrous, tips reddish-brown and laciniate or jagged. Disk annular, subcrenulate, glabrous. Stamens 6; filaments about thrice the length of the calyx, glabrous, very shortly connate at the base or nearly free; anthers curved. Female flowers: pedicel 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, very slender, slightly thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Sepals joined at the base, otherwise similar to the male. Disk very thin and adnate to the base of the calyx, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, each carpel depressed in the upper part; styles slender, connate at the base, bilobed to about the middle, slightly papillose. Capsule (immature?) trilobed, about 3 lin. long and 2 1/2 lin. in diam., closely and distinctly reticulate, each style persistent in a depression of the incurved apex of each carpel. Ripe seeds not seen.
