Dioecious tree. Leaves spirally arranged, entire, coriaceous, penninerved, petioled. Inflorescences axillary, 3-5 peduncled cymes arranged to a panicle. ♂ Flowers unknown. ♀ Flowers subsessile, crowded at the apex of the ultimate branches of the inflorescence; bracts minute, caducous. Calyx cup-shaped, 4-6-lobed halfway, lobes valvate. Petals 4, valvate, smooth inside. Staminodes 4, of the habit of apparently normal stamina, but without pollen; filaments flattened, glabrous; anther cells elliptic, medifixed, the connective between not produced beyond them. Ovary with a lateral gibbosity; stigma sessile, subcapitate, papillose, clearly set off from the ovary, subbilobed or depressed to one side. Disk unilateral, free, opposite the gibbosity of the ovary, a semiorbicular low truncate or sub-crenate fleshy scale. Drupe curved, ovate-acuminate when seen from one side, exocarp thin, endocarp with numerous prominent nerves on the concave, and a thick median rib on the convex side, the latter covered with a fleshy appendage, the very apex excepted, and with a low semiorbicular fleshy free scale opposite the appendage, subtended by the remnants of the calyx. Seed not yet known.
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