A shrub with thin grey bark and four angled branches. Leaves three to five foliate,petiolate; leaflets lanceolate, coarsely cut and crenate, terminal leaflet quite long.Flowers bluish-white in terminal paniculate racemes. Berries black. (India) Big tree (Laos) A deciduous shrub or small tree; with 3-5 leaflets that are narrowly elliptical to ovate-lanceolate; cymes terminal, axillary and arranged in panicles; corolla is blue-violet;fruit is globose to broadly ovoid and purple or black when mature. (Philippines)