Descr. Shrub erect (specimen described six feet high), 
Bark brown ; on the twigs covered with brown tomentum. 
Branches long, slender, drooping, somewhat flexuous, 
Leaves (two to three inches long, eight to thirteen lines 
broad) largest below the origin of the branches, ovato-ob- 
long, terminated with a short, stout, sphacelated mucro ; 
when young, adpresso-pubescent ; when old, glabrous ; 
three to five-nerved, reticulated, obsoletely crenate, and the 
most ovate appearing, with their dilated bases, partly to em- 
brace the branches. Fascicles axillary, sessile. Scales of 
the flower lead-brown, membranaceous, nerved, concave, 
ciliated, and diaphanous in the edges, the inner ones rhom- 
boid and petiolate, the outer ovate and sessile. Peduncle 
and every part of the flower glabrous. Style erect, bearing 
the conical stigma (which is generally covered with the 
yellow granular pollen) beyond the recurved second seg- 
ments of the four-parted perianth. Graham. 
