Shrub, 1-2 m high; branchlets striate. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate, petiolate; leaflets elliptic, broadly elliptic or obovate, 2.5-6 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, apex rounded or emarginate, mucronulate, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, lateral veins 4-6, prominent below, joining to form a conspicuous looping submarginal vein, chartaceous, glabrous; petiole 0.8-2 cm long, channelled; petiolules 0.2-0.5 mm long, channelled. Inflorescence of axillary corymbose racemes, 4-6 flowered, aggregated towards the ends of the branches; peduncles 1.5-4.5 cm long; pedicels 1-2 cm long; bracts trifid, 1 mm long. Receptacle cylindric-infundibular, 5-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide at mouth, longitudinally ribbed; disc lobed with lobes unequally laciniate, 0.8-1 mm long. Sepals 4, elliptic-broadly elliptic, navicular, 9-10 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, apex obtuse to round, uncinate, margins glabrous or ciliate. Petals 4, white, elliptic, 2.3-7 mm long, 1.2-5 mm wide, apex acute, apiculate, base clawed. Androphore 7 mm long, exserted 2 mm from receptacle. Stamens 18-30, c. 2 cm long; anthers 2 mm long. Gynophore 2.1-2.3 cm long. Ovary oblong-ellipsoid, 3 mm long; ovules 10-15; stigma sessile, capitate. Fruit reddish yellow, ellipsoid-cylindrical, 2.5-3.7 cm long, 1.3-1.5 cm diam., distinctly colliculate. Seeds 10-15, sub-globose, 5 mm diam., verrucose.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 3 m tall. The leaves have 3 leaflets and these are 6 cm long by 3.5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. They are thinly textured and shiny on both surfaces. The flowers are in clusters in the axils of leaves. The petals are small and there are 10-20 stamens up to 2 cm long. The fruit are oval and 3.5 cm long by 2 cm wide. They are shiny and reddish-yellow.
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