A nearly glabrous unarmed arborescent shrub; branchlets somewhat compressed at the extremities, not quite patent. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, wedge-shaped at the base, glabrous, rather pale green on both sides especially below, glossy above, thinly coriaceous, 1–2 1/2 by 1/4–1 1/4 in.; lateral veins about 3–5 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 1/12– 1/6 in., glabrous; stipules ovate or lanceolate-subulate, subobtuse, glabrous 1/6– 1/5 in. long. Flowers 1/5 in. long, yellow, on slender puberulous or nearly glabrous pedicels of 1/5– 3/8 in., several together, umbellately placed on a very short common peduncle. Calyx-limb campanulate, glabrous; limb subtruncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla glabrous outside; tube hairy inside; lobes 5, ovate, subobtuse. Disk glabrous. Style curved, about as long as the corolla when straightened, glabrous. Stigma far exserted, mitriform, terete, bifid at tip. Fruit 1/4 in. long, obscurely marked with transverse wrinkles, subdidymous or one half abortive; seeds and embryo curved round the placentas through half a circle; albumen uniform.
