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Glabrous unarmed shrubs or small trees. Leaves large, imparipinnate, with a stipular sheath; leaflets alternate or opposite, entire or indistinctly dentate. Flowers in umbellules grouped in large terminal panicles; pedicels articulated below the flower. Calyx lobes 5. Petals 5, imbricate, obovate, narrowed towards the base. Stamens 5, filaments stout, anthers dorsifixed. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, disk fleshy, obconic, crowned by two erect styles with clavate stigmas. Fruit ovoid, crowned by the small calyx lobes and the recurved style arms (which eventually fall); exocarp thin, fleshy, with peripheral oil vesicles; endocarp papery; endosperm with shallow longitudinal grooves not ruminate.
