Tree. Indumentum of simple hairs only. Branchlets terete, sinuous in appearance because of phyllotaxis, smooth, sericeous when young. Leaves paripinnate, without pseu-dostipules; petiole somewhat pulvinate; rachis not winged; petiolules represented by pulvinus only. Leaflets coriaceous, asymmetrical, punctate; base attenuate; margin mainly crenate; on the lower surface a few glandular hairs consisting of a few stalk cells and a large apical cell occasionally present, domatia many, pockets; venation above usually flat, below raised; nerves apically marginally looped; veins densely reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences ramiflorous, branching in axil, occasionally along rachis; cymules cincin-nate to mainly dichasial. Bracts and bracteoles triangular, sericeous. Pedicels completely sericeous. Flowers apparently bisexual but presumably functionally male or female, zygomorphic. Sepals 5, imbricate, free, 2 outer ones smaller than 3 inner ones, inside and outside mainly basally sericeous, punctate. Petals 5, hardly clawed, pilose, punctate, (lower part of margins folded inwards); free scales absent. Disc uninterrupted, flat, broad, glabrous. Stamens 7 (or 8?); filaments pilose in lower half; anthers basifixed in cleft, dehiscence latrorse, papillate, pilose, glabrescent. Pistil: ovary 3-locular, smooth, especially apically hirsute; ovule 1 per locule; stigma almost sessile, pyramidal, longitudinally grooved, elongating in fruit together with style. Fruit an obovoid capsule, loculicidal, subcircular in transverse section, hardly stipitate, without wings, rough, not warty, outside and inside glabrous, black when dry, rather woody. Arillode completely covering the seed, no basal appendage, apically open. Seeds subbasally attached on a funicle-like structure, obovoid, triangular in transverse section; hilum more or less circular.
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