branches at top appressed-hairy; leaves on very short petioles, opposite or ternate, coriaceous, not veined, ovate or elliptic-oblong, with recurved margins; peduncles solitary, axillary, at the apex bibracteate and 3-flowered; pedicels adpressed-hairy as well as the 4- or 5-parted calyx. Dwarf shrub, 1/2–1 foot, a few-branched; branches purplish. Petiole 1/2 line long. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate and ternate, 8–9 lines long, 4–5 lines broad, acutish, upper ones ovate-oblong, when dry olive-green or blueish-green and shining above, pale fulvous-beneath, only the young ones conspicuously dotted. Peduncle compressed, glabrous, a little thicker upwards; pedicels 1–2 lines long, the lateral ones divaricate, equalling the leafy, ovate bracts. Calyx at the base with 2 minute bracts; lobes 4 or 5, obtuse. Petals 4 or 5, twice longer, obovate. Stamens inserted in a large disc. Fruit not seen.
