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a shrub about 6 ft. high; branches at first densely whitish-villous, later glabrescent, brown and somewhat rugose; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, the largest 2 1/4 in. long and 1 in. broad, usually 1–1 1/2 in. long and 5–6 lin. broad, smaller on the catkin-bearing branchlets or peduncles, mucronate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, entire or sometimes remotely and obscurely serrulate, thinly covered above and densely beneath with grey silky hairs, sometimes subglabrescent above; petiole 1 1/2–3 lin. long; stipules brown, membranous, obliquely ovate, 3/4–1 lin. long, silky-hairy, soon deciduous; catkins appearing with the leaves; peduncle 4–6 lin. long, bearing 2–4 subsessile lanceolate leaves, 6–9 lin. long and 2 1/2–3 lin. broad; male catkins cylindric, 8–15 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, densely white-tomentose on rhachis and bracts; bracts ovate to obovate, about 1 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad; disc-glands fleshy, about 1/4 in. long, irregularly lobed, crenulate or emarginate; stamens 3–7; filaments villous; female catkins (in fruit) ovoid-cylindric, 6–12 lin. long, rather dense; disc-gland rather more than 1/4 lin. long, irregularly toothed, completely surrounding the pedicel; pedicel 1/2– 2/3 lin. long; capsule ovoid, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad, glabrous. null