stipules spiny, hooked; twigs downy; leaves ovate or oblongo-lanceolate, tapering to each end, obtusely acuminate, tipped with a hard point, undulate at the margin, glabrous on the upper, covered with deciduous down on the lower surface; racemes axillary, shorter or longer than the leaf. Stem climbing; branches terete, green, smooth; twigs slender, flexuous, the young ones often rufescent. Leaves spreading, the lower 3 inches long, an inch wide; upper 2–2 1/2 inches long, 5–6 lines wide or wider, venulose; the petioles 3–6 lines long, channelled above. Racemes axillary, often long and leafless, simple or paniculately branched. Buds globose, downy. Sepals 1 line long; petals glabrous, of equal length. Ovary ovate, acute. Berry globose, as big as a large pea; thecaphore as long or a little longer than the pedicel.
