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Trees or sometimes shrubs, bark smooth; branches short-strigose or glabrous. Leaves large, entire. Inflorescences axillary panicles. Flowers small, polygamous or unisexual, with short pedicels, bracteate, articulate below calyx; calyx short campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes often unequal, small, deltoid; petals free, glabrous or glabrescent, the apex inflexed, the midrib prominent; stamens 5, filaments flattened, with pubescent swelling or appendage just above middle, abruptly narrowed below anthers, anthers versatile, introrse, ovate, thecae diverging at base; disk fleshy, in female flowers crescent-shaped; ovary 1-celled, cylindric-conic, angled and slightly compressed, with lateral basal fleshy appendage, stigma capitate, nearly sessile, fleshy, rugose, wider than ovary. Drupe oblong, flattened, slightly arcuate, ridged, sharply so on convex side, with a fleshy appendage on concave side; seed with copious endosperm, embryo minute.
ing a large oblong fleshy appendage of a lighter color on the concave side, the pericarp dark-pigmented, fleshy, the putamen with 2 pairs of equal primary ribs on the lateral edges of the fruit and 1 median ridge developed on both the con-cave and convex sides, the intermediate ridges more or less completely and prominently developed on the convex side; seed 1, embryo minute.
