twigs downy or glabrous; stipules spiny, hooked; leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, mucronulate; thinly downy; pedicels terminal, umbellate; buds glabrous, petals ovate-oblong. A shrub, 4 or more feet high, with rigid, spiny branches, and leafy twigs. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, very entire, with recurved margins, obtuse or retuse, with or without mucron, paler below, 1–1 1/2 inches long, 6–10 lines wide. Flowers 4–10, subumbellate; peduncles filiform, pubescent, inch long. Calyx 2 1/2 lines long, concave, obtuse. Petals 4, subciliate, villous at base and within, 3 lines long. Stamens numerous, twice as long as the petals. Ovary ovate, acute, glabrous; thecaphore as long as the pedicel. Berry spherical, apiculate, glabrous, as large as a small cherry, one seeded.
