Tree or shrub, up to c. 8 m, dbh 3-30 cm, sparsely branched, bark smooth, grey brown, thin. Branchlets smooth to slightly rough, greyish black to reddish black to light brown; flowering twigs 4-13 Tim thick. Leaves 1-4-jugate; petiole 3-17 cm long, terete to flattened above, sometimes slightly winged below the first jugum, (slightly) ribbed, glabre us; rachis 4.5-22 cm long, terete to flattened or slightly angular above, usually slightly winged below the jugae, (slightly) ribbed, glabrous; petiolules 0.7-2.2 cm long, flattened to slightly grooved, glabrous, pulvinus 3-10 mm long, grooved, glabrous. Leaflets opposite to suboppo-site, rarely alternate, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate, 9—31 by 4-12 cm, index 1.8-3.3, pergamen-taceovs to coriaceous, both sides glabrous; base symmetric (or slightly oblique), attenuate, rarely acute; margin not to slightly recurved; apex acu-minatiî, sometimes obtuse, acute or cuspidate, often abruptly narrowing; midrib prominent, angular to ribbed, lateral nerves 1-3 cm apart, basally indistinctly, apically distinctly looped, intercalated veins curved towards the base, veins laxly reticular, on upper surface slightly raised. Inflorescence: axillary, subterminal or ramiflorous, thyr-soid, branching at the base or not, to 13 cm long, very laxly puberulous to glabrous; cymules 1-flowered; bracts and bracteoles 0.5-1 mm long; pedicels 2-4 mm long. Flowers 6-8 mm in diam. Sepals glabrous except for (laxly) ciliate margins, outer ones broadly elliptic, c. 2.5 by 2 mm, inner ones broadly ovate, c. 3.5 by 2.5 mm. Petals broadly obovate, 1.6-2 by 1.8-2 mm, outside (laxly) pilose, inside glabrous, claw 0.2-0.4 mm high, margins coarsely lobed, apex rounded; scales absent. Disc glabrous. Stamens 8; filaments 3-5 mm long, velutiuous towards the base; anthers c. 1 mm long, puberulous. Ovary c. 1 mm long, densely sericeous; style and stigma c. 2 mm long, the first laxly pu-berukus. Fruits obcordate, 1.8-2.5 by 1.6-2.1 cm, outside rugose to ribbed, laxly puberulous, inside (densely) papillose; stipe 0.5-1 cm long; lobes 1-3, well developed, 1-1.5 by 0.7-0.9 cm; style 0.5-1 mm long. Seeds ellipsoid or ovate, 1-1.7 cm by 6-10 mm; hilum 2-3 mm diam.; pseudohilum 0.4-1.1 cm diam.
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