Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, (1–3) 5–9-foliolate; petiole and rhachis winged (in our area); leaflets ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, dotted with pellucid glands, margin slightly crenate.
Ovary 4 (5)-locular, loculi 1-ovulate; style long; stigma subglobose, 4 (5)-lobed.
Fruit baccate, globose, punctate with oil-glands; endocarp fleshy.
Small trees or shrubs; branches with (0) 1–2 axillary spines.
Inflorescence of short axillary racemes or cymose clusters.
Sepals united in a 4 (5)-lobed cupuliform calyx.
Seeds with fleshy cotyledons; endosperm absent.
Flowers 4 (5)-merous, bisexual.
Stamens 8 (10).
Disk annular.
Petals 4 (5).