Trees or shrubs, erect or subscandent, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves imparipin-nate, the leaflets entire or serrate. Panicles axillary or terminal. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, small, frequently greenish-yellow and fragrant; calyx-segments 5, imbri-cate, persistent; petals 5, spreading, imbricate in bud; stamens 10, inserted below the disc, the anthers ovate to + globose; disc intrastaminal, 5-10-lobed; ovary ovoid, 1-locular, the ovule apical, the styles 4-5, short, conic, the stigmas simple. Drupes ? oblique-oblong, fleshy, the stone rugulose-crustaceous; seed solitary, oblong, the testa thinly membranaceous.
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