A tree 15–25 ft. high. Branchlets alternate and usually clustered at the ends of larger branches, terete, succulent, spineless, leafless except when very young, 2/3–3 lin. thick, marked with small leaf-scars, glabrous. Leaves soon deciduous, alternate, distant below, clustered at the ends of the branchlets, 1/3– 2/3 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, linear or cuneately linear, subacute, sessile, somewhat fleshy, glabrous. Inflorescence a small dense sessile cluster of involucres at the tips of the branchlets, about 1/8– 1/6 in. in diam. Bracts minute, scale-like, suborbicular. Involucres subsessile or very shortly pedunculate, scarcely 1 lin. in diam., cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 or fewer oblong or ovate subciliate lobes; glands 1/4– 1/2 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic, entire. Ovary erect, on a stout pedicel about as long as the involucre, glabrous; styles 1/3 lin. long, free, very deeply bifid.
