A small shrub; flowering branchlets produced singly, angular or very slightly winged, glabrous. Leaves elliptic, rounded to a minute point, rounded at the base, 3–4 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 1/4 lin. broad, green, very thin, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, faint below, invisible above, margins slightly recurved; petiole 1/4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules ovate-triangular, acute, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, membranous, brown, glabrous. Flowers monœcious. Male flowers: Sepals 5–6, obovate, rounded at the apex, about 1/2 lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands 5–6, rounded, smooth. Stamens 2–3; filaments connate to the top; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals oblong-ellipsoid, rounded at the apex, 1 1/4 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, with membranous margins, glabrous. Disk flat, entire or slightly undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 6-lobed, glabrous; styles erect, bilobed to below the middle, lobes not swollen at the tips. Capsule about 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Seeds trigonous, convex on the back, 1 lin. long, with about 7 lines on the back.
