A glabrous shrub or shrubby tree with purplish, often armed branches, spines slender, straight, leafless, varying to 3 in. Leaves rather large, distinctly petiolate, firmly membranous or rather coriaceous, oblong-elliptical or broadly oval, narrowed to each end, usually acute, occasionally shortly acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, 3–6 in. long, 1–3 in. broad; petiole 1/6– 1/2 in. Peduncles very slender, forking usually above the middle a few times, 1 1/2–3 in. long. Flowers small, white, often rather cymosely clustered. Ovary half-immersed in a fleshy adnate disk, 3-celled with a subsessile 3-fid stigma. Fruit after dehiscence 3/4–1 in. in diam.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch!Ambas Bay Upper Guinea Gulf of Guinea, Mann!
