A shrub or small tree, sometimes fluted at the base, with numerous, widely spreading, sometimes subscandent, purplish, puberulous or pilose branches, occasionally spiny. Leaves subcoriaceous, 2–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. wide, on very short pilose stalks, ovate-oblong, subcordate, acute or acuminate, more or less coarsely serrate, pilose on both surfaces, 3-nerved, nearly feather-veined. Stipules subulate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the petioles, deciduous. Peduncles along the sides of the branches, axillary, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, dividing into 2–3 pedicels of about the same length. Flower-buds oblong, dilated at the base, constricted in the middle. Sepals oblong, pilose. Petals oblong, emarginate, one-third shorter than the sepals. Anthers usually stellate-pilose on the back, rarely glabrous. Stigmatic lobes linear. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell. Fruit globose, 1–4-lobed; lobes the size of a pea, pilose.
