A low shrub with glabrous grey-brown branches. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, long-acuminate and acute or rounded at the apex, narrowed towards the base, entire, papery, glabrous, paler beneath, with venation very prominent beneath, 3–5 1/2 in. long, 1–2 in. broad; petiole thick, pilose, 3–4 lin. long. Flowers white, 5-merous, axillary, usually solitary, rarely in pairs; pedicel 1 1/2–2 lin. long, densely silky-hairy. Sepals ovate, broadly imbricate, acute, grey-silky-hairy above, more densely so beneath, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad at the base. Petals bifid to the base; lobes rectangular, 1/3 as long as the sepals, densely grey-silky-hairy on the margins, elsewhere on both sides sparsely and shortly pilose. Stamens 1–1 1/4 lin. long; filaments somewhat flattened, villous on the edges; anthers small. Ovary very densely pilose, 4- or 5-celled; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit (hardly mature) globose, 1/2 in. in diam.
