Tree, 8-15 m high. Branchlets glabrous except for some tomentose hairs on nodes; flowering twigs 3-6 mm thick. Leaves 3-or 4-jugate; rachis 3.2-20.5 cm long, winged, wing 2.5-3 mm broad, sub-tomentose, petiole 2.7-7.7 cm long. Leaflets sub-sessile, subopposite to alternate, (ovate to) elliptic, 8-16.4 by 2.4-5.6 cm, index 2.7-3.5, slightly asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, coriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex cuspidate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous to sparsely sericeous, domatia absent (to a single pocket on basiscopic side in axil of ± second nerve); venation on upper side slightly sunken to flat, raised below; nerves 0.3-2.2 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins densely reticulate, rather conspicuous. Infructescences axillary (to pseudoterminal), branching basally and along the terete, subtomen-tose, 2.7-6 cm long axis; first order branches up to 4 cm long; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside sericeous, inside glabrous; bracts 0.7-0.9 mm long; bracteoles 0.4-0.5 mm long; pedicels 1.8-2.2 mm long, completely slightly sericeous. Flowers unknown. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, without glands, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1-1.2 by 0.9-1.2 mm; 3 inner larger ones c. 1.5 by 1.5 mm, margin petaloid. Petals, see note. Disc uninterrupted. Stamens and pistil unknown. Fruits with 1 or 2 well developed lobes, 0.9-1 by 0.8-1.3 cm, rugose, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry; stipe 1.5-2.5 mm high, broadly obconical; margin blunt; lobes 8-9 by 6-6.5 mm; septa complete. Seeds obovoid, c. 6.5 by 5 mm; hilum c. 1.1 mm long.
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