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Male flowers with 4 stamen-fascicles each of 5–7 stamens with filaments completely united and anthers sessile, oblong, curved, transversely septate; ovary-vestige orange, rugose, c. 1–2 mm. in diam.
Inflorescence terminal or axillary; flowers c. 10 mm. in diam., dioecious, in single or in few-flowered, pedunculate or ± sessile, biparous cymes or fascicles; pedicels 2–5 mm. long, pale green.
Evergreen shrub or tree, 5–9 m. high (up to 20 m. in Belgian Congo), erect or trailing, much branched, glabrous; branches spreading, slender, ± quadrangular at first, later cylindric.
Sepals 4, pale green, the outer pair shorter, triangular-ovate to orbicular, cucullate, the inner pair ovate to orbicular, obtuse to rounded at the apex.
Female flowers with a yellowish, globular or obconical, 4-locular ovary surmounted by a broad peltate sticky orange-yellow ± 4-lobed stigma.
Petals 4, 4–5 mm. long, greenish-yellow or greenish-white, elliptic or obovate, ± reflexed, sometimes ± emarginate.
Berry 15–18 mm. in diam., globular, yellow when ripe, 2–3-seeded.
A tree. It grows 8-12 m high. The trunk is 30 cm around.
Seeds c. 9 mm. long, ± cylindric.
A tree, 15–30 ft.
