leaves on very short petioles, ovato-lanceolate, narrowed at base and apex, mucronulate, with undulate margins, veiny on both sides, glabrous; peduncles filiform, axillary, corymboso-racemose toward the ends of the branches; flowers polyandrous. Branches and branchlets ashcoloured, glabrous. Leaves simple, the upper ones narrower; petiole 2 lines long. Peduncles uncial, shorter than the leaves or equalling them. Calyx 3 lines long, sepals obovato-spathulate, acute, concrete at base. Stamens 12 or more, more than twice as long as the calyx, on a torus 1 line long. Thecaphore longer than the stamens. Ovary ovate, with a short style and discoid stigma. Fruit pendulous, globose, larger than a pea, reddish, minutely dotted, unilocular, 1–2 seeded. Seeds crustaceous, shining. Embryo subconvolute, with an obtuse, terete radicle; cotyledons fleshly, broad, convolute. It varies with oblong-ovate or lanceolate, obtuse or emarginate, mucronulate, acute, or acuminate leaves, 1–3 inches long, 1/2–1 inch wide.
