branches, petioles, leaves, and panicles, sub-sericeous, pubescent; leaves petiolate; leaflets oblong, acute, or elliptic- lanceolate, mucronulate, narrowed at base, quite entire, with revolute margins, veined on both surfaces, the terminal one somewhat larger; panicles terminal, the length of the leaves, the axillary ones shorter; drupe globose, glabrous. A shrub, 6–8 feet high; branches sometimes spinous, branchlets often climbing. Petioles furrowed above, 1/2–1 inch long. Leaves sessile or the terminal one shortly petiolate; leaflets puberulous, or sub-glabrous above, paler beneath, 1 1/2–2 inches long, 6–8 lines wide; in var. β. 9–12 lines long, 2–4 lines wide, the lateral ones smaller and more oblong. Axillary panicles twice shorter, terminal a little longer than the leaves. Flowers minute, white. Drupe sub-compressed, the size of a peppercorn. Distinguished from the preceding by the smaller leaflets and shorter panicles.
