the patent, spinescent branches and petioles, leaves, and flowers covered with minute, red glands; leaves petiolate, fasciculate, palmately 3-foliolate, petioles dilatate, leaflets sessile, linear-cuneate, obtuse, quite entire, thickish, sub-glaucous; racemes axillary, 3–6-flowered, shorter than the leaves; drupe oblique, oval, sub-compressed, glabrous. Shrub much branched, branches and branchlets terete, rigid, spinous. Petioles 2–4 lines long, broader at top; younger leaves red coloured, old ones sub-glabrous; leaflets 3–4 lines long, obtuse, rarely emarginate at top, 1 line broad. Peduncles racemose, shorter than the petiole, as well as the calyx, ferruginous. Petals white, 1/2 line long. Drupe transversely broader, 1 1/2 line long, 2 lines broad, beaked with the very short styles.