glabrous; leaves long-petioled; leaflets sessile or shortly petiolate, ovate, acuminate, mucronate, entire, with sub-undulate margins, paler beneath; panicles axillary and terminal, elongated, lax; drupe globose, glabrous. Shrub, 5 feet or more. Bark thin, rough. Wood hard, reddish, called Essenhout (Ash-wood) in the Western districts, and Bosganna by the natives in the Eastern. Branches purple, branchlets elongate. Petiole 2–3 uncial, furrowed above; petiolules of the lateral leaflets 1/2–1–2 lines, of the intermediate leaflets 3–4 lines long. Leaflets elevated-veined, shining above, acute at base, 2–3 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch wide, the margins mostly quite entire, in var. β. with some acute, mucronate teeth. Panicles compound, loose; pedicels capillary. Flowers minute, yellowish-white. Drupe shining, the size of a pea.
