I also think this is *Scutia myrtina* (N. L. Burman) Kurz from Rhamnaceae, I am attaching the description of this plant from e-flora of China
*Synonym: **Rhamnus myrtina* N. L. Burman, Fl. Indica, 60. 1768 [*"myrtinus" *]; *Blepetalon aculeatum* Rafinesque, nom. illeg. superfl.; *Ceanothus circumscissus* (Linnaeus f.) Gaertner; *R. circumscissa* Linnaeus f.; *Scutia circumscissa* (Linnaeus f.) W. Theobald; *S. commersonii* Brongniart; *S. eberhardtii* Tardieu; *S. indica* Brongniart, nom. illeg. superfl. Shrubs evergreen, scandent, straggling, or erect, to 5 m tall, spinescent. Branches opposite to subopposite; young branches puberulent; older branches brown or red-brown, striate, glabrous. Spines mostly 2 per node, axillary, 2-7 mm, recurved. Leaves opposite or subopposite; stipules lanceolate, 2-3 mm, early deciduous; petiole 3-5 mm, glabrous or puberulent; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially shiny, deep green, brown when dry, elliptic, 3.5-6 × 1.8-3 cm, leathery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 5-8 pairs, conspicuously raised abaxially, impressed adaxially, base broadly cuneate, margin inconspicuously remotely minutely serrulate, apex shortly acuminate or acute. Flowers yellow-green, few in axillary fascicles or shortly pedunculate in axillary condensed cymes, glabrous. Pedicels 1-2 mm. Sepals (4 or)5, narrowly triangular, ca. 2 mm, midvein distinctly keeled, apex acute and thickened. Petals (4 or)5, deeply emarginate to deeply bilobed, unguiculate, ca. 1 mm, both sides slightly inflexed, base shortly clawed. Stamens (4 or)5, surrounded by and equaling petals. Disk glabrous, rather thin and inconspicuous. Ovary globose, base filling calyx tube, but not immersed in disk, 2-loculed; style short, ca. 1 mm, stout; stigma undivided or inconspicuously 2- or 3-lobed. Drupe obovoid-globose, 4-5 mm in diam., often with rudimentary style at apex, base with persistent calyx tube, with 2 one-seeded stones; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm, glabrous. Seeds brown, flat, obcordate, not furrowed. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Nov. Illustration: http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=94046&flora_id=2 Tanay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
