a quite glabrous shrub; branches divaricate, some short and spiny, marked by lines decurrent from the nodes; leaves solitary or few in fascicles, shortly petioled, ovate, oblong, obovate or almost spathulate, acute or somewhat obtuse, 5 by 2 1/4–1 1/2 lin., thinly membranous; peduncles solitary or geminate, 4 lin. long, elongating in fruit; calyx 1 lin. long, cup-shaped; teeth 5, equal, short, acute, ciliate; corolla 3–4 lin. long, white (Wood); tube contracted below, subcampanulate above; lobes 5, 1 lin. long, ovate, glabrous; stamens inserted about 1 lin. up the corolla-tube, 4 exserted, the 5th much shorter and included; filaments hirsute towards the base; style filiform, exserted; stigma obconical; berry ovoid or ovoid-oblong, 3–3 1/2 lin. long. 1 1/2 lin. in diam., shortly apiculate. null
