stems woody, erect or diffuse, angular, glabrous, dull green; leaves petiolate, tapering and somewhat clasping at base, elliptical or obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous; cymes terminal or lateral, on short peduncles, densely many-flowered, corymbose; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, mucronulate, one-nerved; fruits pitted and furrowed, as long as the sepals. Root woody. Stems several, 3–6 inches high, sparingly branched. Leaves 1/2 inch long, 2–4 lines wide, mostly broadly obovate and very obtuse, with a minute, reflexed point. Flowers smaller than in L. Africanum, the sepals blunter and the cymes less spreading.
