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Branches spinescent; spines horizontal, bearing leaves and flowers; leaves mostly fasciculate, palmately 3-foliolate, petiolate; petioles broadly-winged; younger leaflets as well as the panicles covered with minute, red glands, the older ones glabrous or punctate beneath, shining above, veined on both surfaces, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or sub-emarginate, entire, the lateral ones oblong, unequal at base; racemes panicled, solitary or fasciculate, as long as the leaves or shorter; drupe oblique, globose, mucronate, sub-compressed, glabrous, li. pterota, Presl. I. c. A tall shrub with grey branches and red-glandular branchlets. Petioles the length of the leaves, shorter or longer, at top 1 line broad. Leaflets coriaceous, flat or with recurved margins, mostly 05-1 inch long, 5-8 lines wide, some smaller, others 2-2.5 inches long, 10-12 lines wide; the lateral ones smaller. Racemes 1-1.5 uncial, ultimate pedicels 0.5-1 line long. Petals 3 times longer than the calyx; drupe the size of a small pea, broader than long.
Tree or shrub, 1-4 m high; evergreen, multi-stemmed, much branched, armed; bark granular to rough, slightly fissured; branches striate, pale grey-brown to dull yellowish. Leaves fasciculate to crowded on spurs; petioles slightly channelled or winged, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, olive-green above, slightly paler below, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, margins entire, slightly revolute. Inflorescence axillary and terminal panicles, ± 50 mm long; males much branched; females less; branches furfuraceous. Flowering time Mar.-Sept. Fruit oblate, ellipsoid, glabrous, shiny, chestnut-brown.
Dioecious, dense, rounded, evergreen shrub, up to 4 m tall, with pale spinous branches. Leaves ± crowded on spurs, trifoliolate, leaflets sessile, oblanceolate, olive-green above, ± paler below, smooth, shiny. Flowers pale yellow, sweetly scented. Drupe lens-shaped, brown, shiny.
Dioecious, evergreen, armed shrub to 4 m. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets sessile, oblanceolate, shiny. Flowers pale yellow. Drupes lens-shaped, brown, shiny.
