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arborescent, armed with long, divergent spines, glabrous; branches and spines warted; leaves coriaceous, rhomboid-ovate or elliptical, obtuse, 5-nerved at base and veiny, quite entire, concolourous; female flowers unknown; male flowers fascicled, shortly pedicellate; calyx 5-parted, tomentose; sepals ovate, acute, nearly valvate. A shrub or small tree, resembling Celastrus buxifolius. Bark dark-coloured, minutely warted. Leaves 2–2 1/2 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch broad, petioles 2 lines long. Male flowers 6–12 in a tuft, on pedicels 1–2 lines long. Stamens numerous; anthers subglobose.