A small pallid bush. Branches rather slender, whitish, glabrate, terete except the extremities; young barren branches annulated. Leaves elliptical or slightly obovate, acuminate or subcuspidate, wedge-shaped at the base, membranous, glabrate or shortly pubescent especially beneath, crowded near the ends of the branches, rather paler beneath, 1–4 1/2 by 1/4–1 3/4 in.; lateral veins about 7–9 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 1/8– 3/4 in.; stipules ovate or lanceolate, apiculate or acuminate, glabrate or pubescent, 1/8– 1/4 in. long. Flowers white, tetramerous, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, on short pubescent or nearly glabrous ebracteate pedicels in dense sessile terminal globose panicles of 2–3 in. diameter. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, acute, more or less hispidulous, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, persistent. Corolla-tube glabrous outside, sparingly pubescent inside, slender; lobes oval, apiculate, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, spreading. Anthers linear, exserted, scarcely as long as the corolla-lobes, at length twisted, subsessile. Style glabrous, slender, exserted by 2/3– 3/4 in., undivided, slightly thicker towards the summit. Berry globose, 1/4 in. diameter or rather more.
