Calodendrum Thunb.

Tall trees with opposite branches. Leaves simple, opposite, petiolate, dotted with pellucid glands. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers bisexual, large. Sepals 5, ovate, small. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, inserted at the base of a cupuliform disk; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed, with an apical gland, sagittate; staminodes 5, petaloid, opposite the petals. Ovary on an elongated gynophore, verrucose-glandular, 5-lobed, apiculate, 5-locular, each locule with 2 ovules; style filiform, long; stigma capitate, small. Fruit a globose woody verrucose stipitate 5-locular capsule, each locule 2-seeded, valvate. Seeds angular, large, black, shiny.