Scorodophloeus Harms

Unarmed evergreen trees. Leaves simply pinnate; leaflets alternate, or some of them subopposite to opposite, 3–20, without gland-dots. Inflorescence racemose. Flowers hermaphrodite, spirally arranged along the inflorescence-axis; pedicels not jointed; bracteoles very small, not enclosing the flower-buds. Sepals 4, imbricate, glabrous inside or with a few short hairs near central part and at apex. Petals 5, subequal. Stamens 10; filaments free, glabrous; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary stipitate, pubescent near margins; stipe of the ovary adnate along one side to the wall of the subcylindric-turbinate hypanthium; ovules 2; style elongate; stigma very small, capitate. Pods flattened, woody, dehiscing elastically into 2 valves which are smooth or nearly so outside. Seeds large, compressed, with thin wrinkled (when dry—? fleshy when fresh) wall, exareolate.