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Staminal tube shortly cylindric, margin more or less entire or shallowly divided to form 8–10 teeth each bearing an anther or antherode; appendages absent; anthers less than 1 mm. long, ^ oblong, scarcely apiculate; antherodes more than 1 mm. long, narrowly pyramidal, apiculate, without pollen-sacs.
Flowers dioecious, with little external difference between the sexes, but with well-developed vestiges of the opposite sex, borne in axillary cymose panicles or extra-axillary towards the base of the current year's growth.
Disk annular, free from the ovary but fused at the base to the base of the staminal tube, glabrous outside, densely setulose-hairy on margin and inner face.
Ovary 2–5-locular, each loculus with 2 superposed ovules; style very short, style-head capitate, surmounted by 2–5 indistinct erect stigmatic lobes.
Vestigial ovary similar to the functional ovary but more slender, with loculi and sometimes with vestigial ovules.
Seeds mostly one per loculus; testa fleshy and resembling an aril.
Petals (4) 5, free, much longer than the calyx in bud, imbricate.
Calyx lobed in upper half, lobes (4) 5, deltate or rounded.
Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire.
Small or medium-sized trees.
Drupe with 2–4 pyrenes.
