A small shrub or ranging up to 10 feet, nearly glabrous. Branches opposite, pale, subterete, erect-patent, leafy at the extremities. Leaves narrowly elliptical or somewhat obovate, more or less pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the shortly petiolate or subsessile base, firmly chartaceous, often marked with immersed glands, 1–3 1/2 by 1/4–1 in.; lateral veins about 6 pairs, very slender, inconspicuous; stipules broadly ovate, apiculate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, covering caducous hairs. Flowers tetramerous, white, 1/4– 3/8 in. long, on short glabrous rather slender pedicels, several together, in short, lateral and subterminal, shortly pedunculate subfasciculate often drooping corymbs of 1/2–1 1/2 in. long. Calyx glabrous, turbinate-campanulate, ebracteolate, 1/10 in. long; limb shortly 4-cleft, teeth obtuse, broad. Corolla glabrous outside, puberulous inside the throat; lobes about equalling the tube, oval, obtuse. Anthers nearly as long as the corolla-lobe; filaments short. Disk glabrous. Ovary short. Style exserted by 3/8– 1/2 in., glabrous, fusiform above, undivided. Ovules solitary, immersed in the fleshy placentas. Fruit 1/4 in. diam., shining.
