shrubby; branches terete, glabrous; young branchlets quite glabrous, blackish when dry; leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, more or less rounded at both ends, 1/3–2 in. long, 1/4–1 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, arcuate, slender, distinct on both surfaces; veins laxly reticulate below; petiole about 2 lin. long, glabrous; stipules linear-lanceolate, acute, somewhat membranous, about 2 lin. long, glabrous, with a distinct midrib and rather hyaline margins; flowers probably diœcious; males fasciculate at the ends of the shoots; pedicels 1 1/2 lin. long, slightly thickened towards the apex, glabrous; sepals 4, obovate, rounded at the apex, 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, glabrous; disc-glands small, thin, rounded, smooth; stamens 4; filaments free, about half the length of the anthers, the latter ellipsoid, 1/2 lin. long, dehiscing at the side; female flowers apparently subsolitary towards the base of the young shoots; pedicels 4 1/2 lin. long in the fruiting stage, glabrous; sepals 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, submembranous, glabrous; disc annular, small; young fruits trilobed, glabrous; styles connate in their lower half, the free part abruptly recurved and bilobed to near the base. null
