branches and branchlets horizontal or reflexed, sometimes sub-spinous, pubescent; leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, obovate, obtuse or acute, emarginate, the terminal one with a cuneate, tapering base, with revolute margins, pubescent on both sides or sub-glabrous, prominently veined below; panicles axillary and terminal, filiform, elongated, lax, villous, the female ones shorter; drupe globose, glabrous. Branches filiform. Petioles furrowed, 4–6 lines long. Leaflets pubescent or villous, often glabrous above, and sparsely hairy and paler beneath, the terminal one 3/4–1 inch long, 6 lines wide. Panicles slender, lateral ones 1–2 inches, terminal 3–4 inches long, pedicels very short. Flowers white, minute. Distinguished from R. villosa by the much smaller, emarginate, not reticulated leaves, and the long, slender panicle; from R. obovata by the smaller not tomentose leaves, smaller flowers and glabrous fruit; from R. crenata, by the four times longer petioles.
