a shrub; branches flattened and slightly winged, glabrous; flowering branchlets flexuous, compressed; leaves ovate or rarely ovate-elliptic, obtuse, more or less rounded at the base, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 1/3– 1/4 in. broad, submembranous, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below; lateral nerves 6–7 on each side, slender, looped; veins not distinct; petiole 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 lin. long, denticulate, glabrous; flowers diœcious; males axillary, solitary or in pairs; pedicel filiform, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 6, in two series, subequal, outer ovate, inner slightly obovate, obtuse, 1 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, entire, membranous, glabrous; disc-glands 6, nearly flat and orbicular, slightly warted above; stamens 3; filaments connate in the lower two-thirds into a slender column; anthers subglobose, cells diverging, dehiscing obliquely; female flowers solitary; pedicel 3–4 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 6, in two series, outer ovate-elliptic, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad, inner obovate, rounded at the apex, 2 1/2 lin. long, 1 3/4 lin. broad, more distinctly veined than the outer; disc thick, undulately lobed, glabrous; ovary smooth; styles spreading, slender, bilobed, lobes terete, not swollen at the tips: complete capsule not seen; seeds smooth (Sonder). null
