Slender tree 3–20 m. tall (or, according to Eggeling, partly scandent); bark smooth, greyish white with patches of orange; young parts chocolate-or rusty-tomentose with spreading to ascending hairs.. Petiole up to 10 cm. long; rhachis 10–20 cm. long; leaflets in 6–7 pairs, opposite or alternate; petiolules 3–6 mm. long, fleshy, hairy; blade oblong-elliptic, ovate-oblong or the lowermost pair of leaflets elliptic, middle leaflets largest, 11–15 cm. long, 3–5 cm. wide, the uppermost a little smaller, the lowermost 6–10 cm. long, 3–5 cm. wide, apex with a sharp acumen 5–25 mm. long or acute, toothed throughout or only towards the apex, the teeth 1–2 mm. deep, or the margin merely sinuate, glabrous apart from the midrib and some or all veins beneath; lateral veins in 10–16(–22) pairs, curving just inside the margin and terminating in the teeth; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath.. Inflorescences golden brown, axillary and terminal, the main axes 14–45 cm. long, the main branches 5–10 cm. long; flowers grey-white in groups of 1–4 subtended by4–6 mm. long lanceolate bracts; pedicels 4–6 mm. long.. Sepals 2.5 mm. long, spreading flat in the male flower, glabrescent on the inner surface.. Petals funnel-shaped, 2.8–3.5 mm. long, 3–3.5 mm. wide, white, the scale equalling the limb.. Disk 1 mm. high.. Stamens 13, glabrous throughout; filaments 4 mm. long.. Ovary 3-lobed; style entire with 3 stigmatic grooves; ovary rudiment in male flowers a small cushion of hairs.. Fruiting pedicels usually enlarging, 0.4–1.3 cm. long; capsule bright red when ripe, 3-lobed with rounded angles, 1.6–2 cm. long and wide, externally with some coarser hairs amongst the fine tomentum.. Seeds dark, (1-)3, 1.3–1.8 cm. long, 1–1.3 cm. wide; aril red.. Fig. 6.
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