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Trees to 20(-30) m tall. Bark smooth to finely cracked, lenticellate. Twigs slender, prominently lenticellate; apical buds with leaves like clenched fists. Leaves in spirals, to 45 cm, odd-pinnate; petiole glabrous, drying blackish, base swollen; leaflets 5-9; petiolules to 6 mm; leaflet blades elliptic to obovate, 8.5-18 × 3-7 cm, papery to somewhat leathery, glabrous, base cuneate, sometimes ± asymmetric, apex conspicuously acuminate with acumen to 1.2 cm, secondary veins 7 or 9(or 10) on each side of midvein. Thyrses ± axillary, 2-8(-25) cm, tawny puberulent, branches to 5(-12) cm. Calyx shallowly cupular, 3-6 mm, fawn-colored pubescent, margin irregularly 5-lobed. Petals (4 or)5(or 6), whitish, 7-10 × 1.8-2.2 mm, usually glabrous. Staminal tube truncate to weakly crenulate, sparsely pubescent outside; anthers 10, ca. 1 mm, inserted near margin. Disk 1-1.5 mm high, inside pubescent, margin crenulate. Ovary (3 or)4-or 5-locular, with 2 collateral ovules per locule; style pubescent in proximal 2/3. Capsule to 3 cm in diam., flattened globose, (3-)5-valved, bright pinkish red, glabrous. Seeds 1-6, ca. 1.8 × 1.5 cm, planoconvex with bright orange sarcotesta.
Tree to 20 m high but often much less; bole to 45 cm diam.; bark smooth to weakly cracked. Leaves in spirals, fist-shaped in bud, 12–45 cm long, imparipinnate, 4-jugate; petiole to 7 cm long; leaflets (narrowly) elliptic to obovate, 8.5–18 cm long, 3–7 cm wide, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex with acumen to 12 mm long, glabrous. Thyrses 2–8 cm long, axillary; branches often congested, to c. 5 cm long, of long-pseudopedicellate, sweetly scented flowers; bracteoles to 1.5 mm long. Calyx shallowly cupular, 2.5–4 mm diam., irregularly 5-lobed, ± adpressed fawn-pubescent. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, c. 7–10 mm long, off-white, adhering basally to tube, usually glabrous. Staminal tube with usually truncate margin and 10 anthers near it. Disc c. 1–1.5 mm long. Ovary 4-or 5-locular; locules 2-ovulate. Capsule flattened-globose, to 3 cm diam., usually 5-valved, bright pink-red, glabrous. Seeds 1–6, planoconvex, 18 mm long, bright orange.
A medium to large tree with rigid branches. It can be 6-10 m high and spread to 3-8 m wide. It has smooth branches with lenticels. The bark of the young branches is dark red. The leaves are alternate and scattered with 7 pairs of leaflets. The leaves are 12-20 cm long. The leaf stalks have grooves along their length. The leaflets are thinly leathery and shiny on the upper surface. The leaflets are 7-15 cm long by 2.5-5 cm wide. They are oblong and unequal at the base. Flowers are borne in the axils of leaves and are yellowish white. They are small, about 1 cm across. The stamens are slightly shorter than the petals. The fruit are round but flattened and can be wrinkled. They are red and with 5 cells. The flesh is white and they have 1 to 4 seeds.
