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) Liana (Laos)