A straggling or rather scandent, prickly shrub; young shoots covered with a rustypubescence. Leaves very obliquely ovate-lanceolate, crenate-serrate. Flowers insessile or subsessile, axillary, condenced paniculate cymes. Drupes obovoid orglobose, black, 1 or 2 celled, pulp scanty. (India) Middle sized tree, 10-20m tall, much branch, skin branch old brown, leaf compound,20-80cm long, flower compound 10-20cm long. (Indonesia) Medium tree (Laos) A tree 10m. high or more. Bark pale-brown, lenticellate, longitudinally furrowed.Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, senate, glabrous on both sides.Inflorescence in axillary or tenninal biparous cyme; flowers white-lilac. Drupe ovateor ellipsoid-globose with 4 seeds, yellow when ripe (Vietnam)