leaves elliptic-oblong, subacute at each end, minutely spinuloso-ciliate, at length quite entire; racemes many-flowered, pendulous, longer than the leaves; sepals 5–6, elliptical-obovate, enlarged and red-orange in fruit; anthers shorter than the filaments, opening by terminal pores; style deeply 5–6 cleft. A shrub, 10–11 feet high. Twigs fulvous, somewhat angular, densely leafy. Petioles 2–3 lines long. Leaves 2 1/2–3 inches long, 1–1 1/4 inch wide, pale when dry, finely reticulated with slender veins, obtuse or acute, tapering at base into the petiole; the margin, in the young leaf, set with very slender, appressed, minute, subulate teeth, afterwards deciduous, leaving a perfectly entire margin. Racemes 3–4 inches long, 12–14 flowered. A very beautiful shrub.
