A shrub with warted branches; young shoots puberulous. Leaves alternate on short stalks, subcoriaceous, ovate, irregularly crenate undulate or repand, crenatures often minutely glandular, acute or obtuse at the base, feather-veined, reticulate, with tufts of hair on the lower face in the axils of the veins. Stipules caducous, linear, foliaceous, 2 lines long. Flower-spikes 3–5 in. long, in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers interrupted, sessile, lower ones scattered, upper ones approximate; each subglobose, 5 lines in diameter. Bracts 3, brown, membranous, one central, two lateral smaller. Sepals 3 lines long, ovate, obtuse; connate at the base into a shallow tube, subcoriaceous, puberulous. Petals similar to the sepals, but twice as large, persistent and connivent around the fruit. Glands small, broad, inserted with the petals. Stamens in fascicles of 6 before each petal; filaments filiform, covered with long spreading hairs, equal to or longer than the petals. Ovary densely hirsute, styles exserted.
