A medium sized shrub. Branches zig-zagged, armed; spines rigid, 1-6 cm long, bearing leaves and flowers. Leaves 1.5-3.5 x 1-3.5 cm, ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, serrate-crenate, coriaceous, glabrous. Flowers in compact, axillary, cymose clusters, shorter than the leaves. Capsule inflated, turbinate, c. 12 mm broad, trivalved, yellowish-brown. Seeds partially enclosed in red fleshy aril.

Fl. Per.: October.

Type: Described from India.

Distribution: N.W. Pakistan, India and Bangla Desh.

This species is not common in Pakistan.