branches spreading, terete, smooth, branchlets and petioles minutely-pubescent; leaves on longish petioles; leaflets sessile, ovate, obtuse or emarginate, mucronulate, the terminal narrowed at base, the laterals smaller, sub-oblique, puberulous above, albo- or reddish-tomentose beneath, quite entire, with the margin slightly recurved or paucidentate; panicles axillary, small, sparsi-flowered, pubescent, shorter than the leaves or sub-equal; drupe globose, smooth. A shrub, seemingly small, much branched, ultimate branchlets short. Petioles 6–10 lines long, furrowed. Terminal leaflets 3/4–1 inch long, 5–6 lines wide; the lateral ones about half as long, regularly penninerved, puberulous, at last glabrous above. Panicle about an inch long, shorter or longer, the rhachis flexuose, lateral branches sometimes few, 3–5 flowered, pedicels 1 line long. Flowers about 3/4 lines long. Petals twice as long as the ovate, acute calyx. Drupe tipped with the three styles. Known from the very similar R. refracta, by the tomentose, not villous or glabrous leaves.
