glabrous; leaves shortly petioled, spreading, ovate or elliptical, acute or obtusely recurve-pointed, with the margin revolute and spinous-toothed, coriaceous, shining, netted; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, crowded; capsule sub-trigonous, 2–3 valved, 1–3 seeded. A span or more in height, procumbent, with erect branches. Leaves unequal, paler underneath, mostly 1 1/2–2 inches long, 9–14 lines wide, on other branches 3/4 inch long, obovate, sharply dentate. Pedunc. few or many, 3–4 lines long. Flowers small, white. Capsule as big as a pea, rarely 4-celled, 1–2 cells abortive. Aril thin. C. ilicinus, Burch. Trav. 1. p. 340, from the character given, seems to belong rather to this species than to the next.
