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Shrub, 0.2-0.5 m high; woody, unarmed, divaricate; bark and branches light brown, smooth, lenticels tiny, branchlets slightly compressed, angulate. Leaves erect, petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, glabrous, dark green, oblanceolate, obtrullate or obovate, margins thickened, revolute, dull whitish, entire. Inflorescence sparingly branched panicles, mostly axillary, within foliage, occasionally terminal. Flowers glabrous; calyx lobes ovate, 1 mm long; corolla lobes ovate, 2 mm long, cream-coloured; styles separate, semi-persistent. Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Fruit a drupe, circular, globoid to obloid, glabrous, shiny, yellow to red.
Quite glabrous; branchlets angulate-compressed; leaves petiolate; leaflets obovate-oblong or oblong, plaited, mucronate, sub-cuneate at base, veined on both sides, coriaceous, white-margined; panicles axillary, as long as the leaves. Very similar to the preceding; differs in the thicker, coriaceous leaflets, usually three times larger, and always with a smooth, white, revolute margin, and particularly by the smaller axillary, very rarely terminal panicles. Petioles winged, 1 inch long or shorter, 1J line wide. Intermediate leaflets 2-3 inches long, about an inch wide, others 1-1.5 uncial. Flowers minute. Fruit wanting.
