Tree to 7 m high or more, with strong, fetid or garlic-like smell when bruised. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets in (1–) 2–5 pairs, ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5–10 cm long, 2.5–4.5 cm wide, narrowed onto petiolule, obtuse to acute. Inflorescence axillary, paniculate, c. 10–20-flowered. Sepals connate, without lobes, forming a short tube. Petals (4 or) 5, oblong, c. 8 mm long, yellow, imbricate. Staminal tube suburceolate to cylindrical, with c. 20 small, blunt, tooth-like lobes; anthers (8–) 10. Ovary 4-or 5-locular. Capsules globose, 2–2.5 cm diam., yellow, dehiscing by 4 or 5 valves. Seeds 4 or 5, lenticular, c. 2 mm long, with a red, fleshy aril.
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A tree. It grows 5-8 m tall. The leaves are dark green above and mid green underneath. The flowers are bright yellow. The fruit are green. The breaking branches have a smell of onion.
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