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Dioecious shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous; stipules small, ca-ducous. Inflorescences axillary, pedunculate dichasia. Flowers unisexual; sepals 4, small; petals 4; disc annular or quadrate, fleshy; male flowers with 4 stamens inserted on the margin of the disc, filaments subulate, anthers oblong, introrse; pistil rudimentary, conic, 2-lobed; female flowers with ovoid pistil, ovary ob- long, basally adnate to the disc, 2-loculed, each locule 1-ovuled, the ovules pen-dulous, the style short, the stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a drupe, usually 1-seeded.
