Synima Radlk.

Trees, monoecious. Indumentum of solitary simple hairs; no glandular scales. Twigs terete. Leaves spirally arranged, paripinnate, 2-7-jugate; no pseudo-stipules; neither petiole nor rachis winged. Leaflets opposite to alternate, beneath smooth, without domatia or glands, margin entire or crenate to serrate. Inflorescences axillary, together sometimes pseudoterminal, thyrsoid. Flowers unisexual, regular. Sepals 5, free, equal, not or slightly imbricate, not petaloid, on both sides hairy. Petals 5, longer than the sepals, ciliate but otherwise glabrous, inside with 2 recurved, woolly, not to distinctly crested scales nearly as long as the petal. Disc entire, glabrous. Stamens 8, exserted, filaments and sometimes anthers hairy. Ovary 3-celled, densely hairy; style apical, about as long as the ovary, densely hairy; stigma slightly lobed. Ovules 1 per cell. Fruits 3-celled, faintly 3-lobed, loculicidal, valves in lower part remaining fused, marginated at the corners, stipe short, pericarp fleshy. Seeds covered with a sarcotesta except for an adaxial strip; cotyledons unequal, collateral.