A shrub, about 4 feet high, with cinereous terete erect-patent glabrescent branches. Leaves obovate-oval, rounded retuse or shortly pointed at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, subchartaceous, somewhat hairy above, hoary-velvety beneath, deciduous, 1 1/2–2 1/2 by 1–1 5/8 in.; lateral veins about 10 pairs; petiole 1/6– 1/4 in.; stipules ovate, acuminate, connate at the base, 1/6– 1/5 in. long. Flowers tetramerous, white, 3/8 in. long when expanded exclusive of the style, on short shortly pubescent (hirsute, DC.) pedicels, numerous, in dense globose subsessile clusters lateral on leafless portions of the branches. Calyx ebracteolate, 1/8 in. long, shortly hairy (hirsute, DC.); limb shortly toothed, teeth keeled, subapiculate. Corolla glabrous outside or very nearly so; tube pubescent inside; lobes oval, mucronulate, 1/8 in. long, very thinly puberulous inside. Anthers nearly equalling the corolla-lobes, filaments short. Disk glabrous. Ovary campanulate, small; style exserted by nearly 1/2 in., glabrous below, puberulous and subclavate above, bifid at the tip. Ovules shortly sunk at the apex in the placenta.
