A small tree with spreading branches, the extremities at first puberulous, soon glabrous and more or less verruculose, armed with slender straight spreading or ascending axillary spines, 1/2–1 in. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-elliptical elliptical or oval, obtuse or scarcely acute, obtuse or rounded and subtriplinerved at the base, entire, the midrib prominent below, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/4 in. broad. Petiole 1 line. Flowers not seen, solitary or in few-flowered axillary fascicles. Fruit solitary, axillary, on a peduncle of 2–3 lines, articulated at the base. Sepals 6–8, persistent, free, broadly fimbriate-ciliate with numerous long, slender, minutely pilose, capitate glands, 8–10 lines long; nearly or quite equalling the orange-scarlet ovoid berry. Styles 2, short, filiform, erect, hairy, persistent. Seeds 2, imbedded in pulp, with the testa covered with a lax wool (according to Dr. Welwitsch, who describes the seed as albuminous, with a large straight embryo, ovate-cordate cotyledons, and a superior radicle).