A nearly glabrous intricately branched shrub. Branchlets terete, sometimes furnished with short spines of 1/8 in., scattered at the apex with sparse strigose pubescence or glabrate. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, acute at the base, rather paler beneath, shortly petiolate, about 1–1 1/2 in. long, puberulous beneath in the axils of the inconspicuous lateral veins or obsoletely so; stipules pubescent within, connate at the base, apiculate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bearing one or few flowers, patent, about 1/4 in. long, twice the length of the petiole. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate; pedicels with a bracteole in the middle or beneath the calyx. Calyx-limb very short, acutely 5-dentate. Corolla-lobes acute, rather crass. Disk depressed. Anthers 5, exserted, subsessile, cordate, puberulous. Ovary 3–4-celled; style exserted; stigma capitate, rugulose-sulcate, obsoletely (3–) 4-mamillate.
