branchlets and petioles minutely downy; leaflets sessile, oblongo-lanceolate or obovate, narrowed at base, toothed near the apex, with revolute margins, glabrous, paler below, and bearded in the axils of the veins; peduncles undivided, equalling the leaves; fl. spicato-racemose; carpels 2–1, rather large, obovate (when dry), reddish. A smaller shrub than the preceding, with small leaves, and short, undivided racemes. Branches ash-coloured; branchlets whitish. Common petiole 1 inch long. Middle leaflet 1 1/2–2 inches long, 7–10 lines wide; lateral smaller, all coriaceous, shining above, cuneate and very entire in the lower half, with a few larger or smaller teeth from the middle to the apex, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, mucronulate. Spikes including the peduncle 1–2 inches long. Flowers small, greenish or brownish, shining; their parts, &c., as in S. melanocarpa. Ovaries divaricate; style bifid. Carpels twice as large as in the other species, 2 1/2–3 lines long, 2 lines wide. Rhus undulata, Jacq. Schoenb. t. 346, though very like this species, differs in its paniculate, dioecious, pentandrous flowers.
