Cordyla Lour.

Unarmed deciduous trees, rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate; stipules small, soon falling off; leaflets petiolulate, alternate or rarely subopposite, with numerous pellucid dots or streaks. Flowers hermaphroditeor ♂, in racemes which are axillary or clustered at nodes or sometimes terminal. Calyx with a subglobose limb entire before dehiscence, splitting into 3–5 lobes on opening. Receptacle (“calyx-tube”) campanulate; a definite disc (i.e. with a margin) not present, the staminal tube merging evenly with the receptacle. Stamens numerous (± 23–126), usually crowded into several series round the top of the receptacle; filaments very shortly connate at base; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits; connective glandular at top. Ovary (in hermaphroditeflowers) long-stipitate, several-ovuled, tapering into a subulate style; stigma small. Fruits stipitate, ellipsoid to subglobose, beaked or rounded, inde-hiscent, with 1–6 seeds embedded in pulp. Seeds large, thin-walled, not arillate, without endosperm; radicle of embryo straight.