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A shrub; branches somewhat fleshy, covered with smooth purple-brown bark, slightly puberulous when young. Leaves clustered on much abbreviated branches in the axils of 2–3 rigid spiny stipules, sessile, spathulate-oblanceolate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 5–6 lin. broad, entire, membranous, with about 5 faint lateral nerves on each side of the midrib, glabrous. Cymes small, shortly pedunculate, about 1/2 in. long; peduncle 1/2 in. long, puberulous; bracts linear-lanceolate, entire, the lower 3 lin. long, pubescent, the upper smaller. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, entire, pubescent. Petals about the same length as the sepals. Disk-glands small. Stamens 8; filaments almost free. Female flowers: Sepals obovate, subacute, minutely glandular-denticulate, 2 lin. long. Petals oblong, obtuse, shorter than the sepals. Disk deeply lobed. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 5 lin. long. Seeds smooth, 2 1/2 lin. long, with a deeply sulcate caruncle.

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A shrub; branches somewhat fleshy, covered with smooth purple-brown bark, slightly puberulous when young. Leaves clustered on much abbreviated branches in the axils of 2–3 rigid spiny stipules, sessile, spathulate-oblanceolate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 5–6 lin. broad, entire, membranous, with about 5 faint lateral nerves on each side of the midrib, glabrous. Cymes small, shortly pedunculate, about 1/2 in. long; peduncle 1/2 in. long, puberulous; bracts linear-lanceolate, entire, the lower 3 lin. long, pubescent, the upper smaller. Male flowers: Sepals lanceolate, entire, pubescent. Petals about the same length as the sepals. Disk-glands small. Stamens 8; filaments almost free. Female flowers: Sepals obovate, subacute, minutely glandular-denticulate, 2 lin. long. Petals oblong, obtuse, shorter than the sepals. Disk deeply lobed. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 5 lin. long. Seeds smooth, 2 1/2 lin. long, with a deeply sulcate caruncle.