branchlets and petioles opposite, hirsute; leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, auriculate or obtuse at base, glabrous above, densely clothed with brown stellate hairs below, at length glabrate. Branches slightly compressed. Petioles 4–6 lines long, rarely longer, as well as the ramuli often blackish villous. Leaves with parallel nerves, prominent on the under surface, 2–6 inches long, 1–3 inches wide. Head of flowers on short peduncles many flowered, sphærical or ovoid, as large as a hazel nut. Male flower: calyx segments obtuse, hirsute, 1 line long, recurved. Petals (white?) narrow linear, attenuate at base, with involute margins, about 5 lines long. Stamens 2 lines long, the erect, mucronulate anthers opening with 2 oblong lateral valves, equalling the thick filaments. Styles 2, abortive. Female flower: calyx lobes about 1 1/2 lines long. Petals none. Styles 2, divaricate, hirsute at base; stigma punctiform. Capsule hairy, about 4 lines long. Seed white, 2 1/2 lines long. The specimens collected by E. & Z., Drege and Mundt. are diœcious, one in Herb. D. has monœcious flowers.
