branches virgate, twigs puberulous; leaves spreading, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or sub-cordate at the base, shining above, downy white beneath, with sub-recurved margins; flowers disposed in leafy terminal, panicled racemes. Shrub, 2–10 feet high. Leaves short, petiolate, spreading or reflexed, 5–6 lines long, 2 lines wide, or the larger ones 8–12 lines long, 3 lines wide, upper shorter. Flowers about 1/2 line long, in the axil of a subulate bractea, tomentose, sub-turbinate; segments ovate, acute. Fruit 2 1/2–3 lines long, obovate, smooth, blackish when dry; area as large as the capsule.