quite glabrous; leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, lanceolate-obtuse, mucronulate, with revolute, remotely denticulate margins, paler beneath, parallel-veined on both sides; panicles axillary and terminal, longer than the leaves, with slender branches and capillary pedicels. A shrub, with terete, greyish branches; flowering branchlets short. Petioles sub-terete, furrowed above, 1/2–1 inch long. Leaflets 2–2 1/2 inches long, 4–6 lines wide, particularly in the upper part denticulate, a few narrowed at base, the lateral ones mostly half as long. Lateral panicles about 3 inches long, ultimate pedicels 1/2 line long. Flowers very minute.—Differs from R. viminalis and lancea by the obtuse, denticulate leaves and longer panicles.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Dr. Gueinzius. (Herb. T.C.D., Sond.)
