shrubby; stems slender, trailing, sparingly branched, 2–3 ft. long, bark pale, glabrous, striate; leaves firmly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, numerous, very short-petioled, triangular-ovate, acute, base truncate or subcordate, margin distinctly serrate, 1–1 1/4 in. long, 2/3– 3/4 in. wide, quite glabrous on both surfaces or sparingly setulose on the main-nerves beneath; petiole glabrous or sparingly setulose, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; stipules glabrous, herbaceous, persistent, 2 lin. long; inflorescences 1-sexual, diœcious; male spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled; peduncles glabrous, 1–1 1/4 in. long; spikes cylindric, dense-flowered, 1–1 1/2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, sparingly pubescent, 1/8 in. long, spreading, persistent; buds glabrous; female spikes terminal, solitary, 1/2 in. (ultimately 1 in.) long; bracts 1-flowered, subsessile, leafy, wide-ovate, subacute or obtuse, base wide-cuneate, 1/2 in. long, 2/3 in. wide, coarsely serrate, the central tooth usually exceeding the 2–4 lateral, sparingly hispid on the nerves outside, eglandular; sepals 3, ovate, acute, glabrous; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, nearly glabrous; styles 3, united in their lower fourth, 2/3 in. long, shortly laciniate upwards; seeds subglobose. null
