Tree, 6-8 m high, dbh up to 12.5 cm. Branchlets sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2-4 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 1.9-12 cm long, basally terete to upwards flattened, (sub)glabrous, petiole 1.5-8.2 cm long; petiolules up to 0.7 cm long. Leaflets opposite to subopposite, ovate to elliptic, somewhat falcate, 5.7-14.4 by 1.6-4.1 cm, index 2.6-4.2, asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat (to re volute); apex (cuspidate to) caudate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface duller, not papillate, glabrous (to some sparse hairs), domatia a single sac on basiscopic side in axil of second nerve; venation raised; nerves 0.4-1.9 cm apart, marginally looped and joined; veins laxly reticulate, indistinct. Inflorescences axillary, branching basally to mainly along the sericeous, flattened, 2.8-16.5 cm long axis; first order branches up to 7.7 cm long; cymules cincinnate, c. 3-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.7-2 mm long; bracteoles 0.5-0.8 mm long; pedicels 3-4.4 mm long, sericeous except (sub)glabrous above articulation. Flowers 4-4.3 mm in diam., white. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, out-and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1.5-2.3 by 1.2-2.6 mm; 3 inner larger ones 2.2-3.3 by 2.2-3.7 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, obovate, 3.3-3.7 by 1.2-1.3 mm, blade elliptic, gradually de-current into the 0.4-0.8 mm long claw, margin pilose, out-and inside glabrous, apex obtuse; scales 2.3-3.2 mm long, free, basally auriculate, membranous margin distinct; crest a linear appendage, (sub)glabrous. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filament 2-5 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anther c. 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.4-2.1 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma 0.3-1.5 mm long. Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, c. 1.3 by 1.5 cm, completely dehiscent, rugose-ru-minate, glabrous, blackish when dry; stipe c. 4 mm long, slender; margin blunt; lobes c. 8 by 8 mm; wall at suture less than 2 mm thick; septa complete. Seeds seen immature; arillode with pseudo-funicle.
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A small tree. The leaves are alternate and compound. The leaflets are narrowly oval and taper to the tip. The flowers are white and in panicles. The fruit is a red capsule. The seeds are dark with a white aril or fleshy layer around them.
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