Tree to 35 m high; bole to 60 cm diam.; buttresses to 3 m high and 2.5 m out; bark smooth to slightly cracking. Leaves in spirals, fist-shaped in bud, 25–90 cm long, paripinnate with terminal scar, 2–4-jugate; petiole 5–10 cm long; leaflets ovate-elliptic to-lanceolate, 10–25 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, acute at base, obtuse to acuminate at apex, glabrous adaxially, glabrous to weakly hairy abaxially. Thyrses 15–30 (–100) cm long, axillary with cymules of sweetly scented subsessile flowers; bracteoles 1–1.5 mm long. Calyx shallowly cupular, 4–5 mm diam., irregularly 4-toothed. Petals 4, narrowly oblong, 6–15 mm long, white to pinkish, free of staminal tube, minutely sericeous outside. Staminal tube glabrous or weakly puberulent; anthers 8. Disc half as long as tube. Ovary 3-or 4-locular; locules 1-or 2-ovulate. Capsule globose, usually weakly rostrate, to 2.5 cm diam., veined, glabrous, pink to reddish brown. Seeds usually 4, subreniform, c. 2 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, red.
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