suffruticose, prostrate; floriferous branches erect, hirsute; leaves elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, and attenuated at the base, petiolate, on the margins or on both sides hirsute or denudate and papulose; flowers axillary, 3–5 laxly glomerate on short pedicels, forming a leafy or leafless interrupted raceme; calyx 4–6 lines long, lobes oval or oblong, mostly hirsute; stamens very numerous; style deeply 3–5-parted; fruit 4-winged, 4-locular. Branches at length woody, branchlets 3–12 inches, sometimes fasciculate. Leaves acute or obtuse or rotundate, 1–3 1/2 inches long; hairs often 1 line long. Styles always connate at the base. Wings of the fruit according to Thunberg's description, crispate, villous. (Fruit in Thunberg's herbarium orbicular, 1 inch long and broad, beset with scattered hairs; the 4 wings large, membranaceous, shining, veined, in the dry state somewhat undulated, 4-locular. Sond.)
