Suregada Roxb. ex Rottler

Dioecious or sometimes monoecious trees or shrubs, usually glabrous but occasionally with a simple indumentum. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, stipulate, simple, usually entire, vesicular-punctate or-zonate, chartaceous or coriaceous, penninerved. Stipules soon caducous, leaving prominent scars. Flowers in leaf-opposed, glomerulate or fasciculate, sessile or pedunculate, uni-or bisexual cymules, ± gummy when young bracts; minute. Male flowers usually pedicellate; sepals (4–)5(–7), free, imbricate, unequal, the outer ones sometimes with a central glandular boss, the inner ones petaloid; petals 0; receptacular glands or an annular disc present, but never both; stamens (6–)10–25(–60), free, anthers medifixed, extrorse, 2-thecous, longitudinally dehiscent at the back, pistillode 0. Female flowers pedicellate; sepals (4–)5(–8), free, imbricate, subequal, sometimes with a central glandular boss; petals 0; disc annular, sometimes lobate; staminodes 5–10, stamen-like or minute and subulate; ovary (2–)3(–4)-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles (2–)3(–4), united at the base, divaricate, bifid or multifid, stigmas linear or subulate, not persistent. Fruit (1–)3(–4)-lobed or subglobose, dehiscing into as many bivalved cocci, or loculicidal, or else an indehiscent drupe; exocarp smooth or reticulate; endocarp subligneous, thinly crustaceous or firmly coriaceous; columella persistent. Seeds ovoid, with a thin pulpy sarcotesta and a crustaceous smooth or foveolate-reticulate endotesta, ecarunculate; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.