Tree, 6-10 m high, dbh up to 10 cm; bark grey. Branchlets shortly sericeous when young; flowering twigs 2.5-8 mm long. Leaves 1-3-jugate; rachis 4.2-19.5 cm long, terete, glabrous, petiole 1.7-6.4 cm long. Leaflets subsessile, opposite to alternate, elliptic, 3.5-16.2 by 1.5-6.4 cm, index 2.3-3.8, usually slightly asymmetrical, acroscopic side broader, subcoriaceous, punctate; base attenuate; margin entire, flat; apex acute to cuspidate, mucronulate; upper surface glabrous; lower surface duller, smooth, no papillae, glabrous, domatia one small sac on basiscopic side in axil of ± second nerve; venation on upper side flat, raised below; nerves 0.2-2.3 cm apart, marginally looped and joined, less distinctly so in lower part of leaflets; veins laxly to densely reticulate, rather inconspicuous. Inflorescences ramiflorous to axillary, branching basally and along the flattened to terete, sericeous, 1.9-12.3 cm long axis; first order branches up to 5.2 cm long; cymules cincinnate, 3-or 4-flowered; bracts and bracteoles triangular, outside hirsute, inside glabrous; bracts 0.5-0.8 mm long; bracteoles 0.2-0.4 mm long; pedicels 2-5.7 mm long, sericeous except for the subglabrous articulate part. Flowers 3.5-4 mm in diam., fragrant. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous; 2 outer smaller ones 1-1.5 by 1-1.8 mm, 3 inner larger ones 1.4-3.2 by 1.4-3 mm, margin petaloid. Petals 5, elliptic, 1.4-3 by 0.7-1.4 mm, white; claw 0.2-0.3 mm high; margin pilose, outside and inside subglabrous, apex acute; scales 0.8-2 mm long, free, basally not auriculate, membranous margin indistinct; crest clavate, stip-itate, apex lobed, pilose. Disc interrupted. Stamens 8; filaments 1.8-3.5 mm long, pilose, especially basally; anthers 0.4-0.8 mm long, glabrous. Pistil: ovary 0.2-0.8 mm long, subhirsute; style and stigma 0.1-0.7 mm long. Fruits with 1-3 well de-veloped lobes, 1.4-2.4 by 1-3.6 cm, completely dehiscent, smooth to slightly rugose or ribbed, glabrous, red when fresh, black when dry; stipe 2-4 mi l high, slender; suture about flat to slightly con-vex margin blunt; lobes 10.5-16 by 10-13 mm; septa complete. Seeds obovoid, 8.5-9.7 by 6.5-7.2 mm; hilum c. 1.7 mm long; arillode with pseudo-funicle.
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