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A shrub up to 7 ft. high; branches slightly angular, glabrous; flowering branchlets spreading, glabrous. Leaves oblong, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate-elliptic, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, cuneate at the base, 1 1/2–5 in. long, 3/4–2 in. broad, thinly chartaceous, entire, glabrous and dull on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6–8 on each side, spreading, becoming fainter and looped near the margin, distinct on both surfaces, prominent below; veins very lax; petiole 2–4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules peltate, persistent, ovate, about 1 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers monœcious, in axillary fascicles on the young shoots, two or three subsessile females surrounded by a few pedicellate males. Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 1/2 lin. long, glabrous. Stamens about 15; filaments glabrous; anthers small. Disk lobed on the upper surface, glabrous. Female flowers mature before the males in each cluster: Sepals 6–7, ovate, obtuse, subcoriaceous, glabrous. Disk annular, fleshy, crenulate, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, lobed, glabrous; styles thick, bilobed, lobes recurved, glabrous. Fruit not known.