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a shrub 3–5 ft. high; branches terete, fleshy and green when young, finally woody, marked with leaf-scars, glabrous; leaves alternate, 2–4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, cuneately obovate, acute or shortly cuspidate at the apex, cuneately tapering from above the middle into a short petiole, wing-keeled on the midrib beneath, glabrous on both sides; umbels axillary and terminal, 3/4–1 1/3 in. in diam., with 3–5 simple or once-forked rays; peduncles 5–9 lin. long, glabrous; rays 2–5 lin. long, puberulous; bracts under the involucre 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 lin. broad, cuneately subquadrate, truncate and with a few minute teeth at the apex, puberulous on both sides; involucre 2–3 lin. in diam., broadly funnel- or bowl-shaped, puberulous on the basal part, with a spreading or ascending entire rim-like gland and 5 subquadrate fringed puberulous lobes, greenish-yellow; ovary only seen in a very immature state and included in the involucre, densely pubescent; styles 1 1/2 lin. long, very shortly united at the base, deeply bifid at the apex, with spreading tips; capsule not seen. null