Tree or large shrub. Leaves 4-8 jugate, the rachis 10-30 cm long, the leaflets mostly opposite, with petiolules 2-6 mm long; lamina of leaflets oblong-lanceolate to oblong or occasionally ovate-lanceolate, apically acuminate, basally unequal and broadly cuneate to rounded, 5-11 cm long, 2.5-5 cm broad, entire and often sub-revolute, glabrous or puberulent beneath on the main veins. Panicles large, erect to ? pendant, many-flowered, the branches hirtellous. Flowers apparently hermaphriditic (pistil-lode present) or 0 (stamens somewhat reduced), the pedicels 1-4.5 mm long; sepals suborbicular to ovate-oblong, apically rounded or subtruncate, ca 1 mm long; petals ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-3 mm long; anthers 1.5-2 mm long in male flowers, smaller in hermaphroditic flowers, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, basally ? cordate, the fila-ments compressed and subulate, 1.5-2 mm long in male flowers; disc flattened, not tumid, obscurely 5-10 crenulate; ovary ovoid, ca 0.8 mm long, the style less than 0.5 mm long, persistent, the stigmas minutely papillose, capitate, flattened, sub-obscure. Drupes 5-9 mm long, white, the surface of the mesocarp with conspicuous dark, longitudinal streaks; seed filling the lumen of the drupe, 5-8 mm broad.
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