Tree, to 30 m high; branchlets dark, puberulent, provided with lanceolate grayish lenticles. Leaves 18.5-28 mm long; petioles minutely puberulent, thick-ened basally, 3.5-7.5 cm long; leaflets 5-11, oblong to elliptic, the laterals inequilateral, abruptly acuminate, narrowly cuneate basally, the margins entire, coriaceous, glabrous, smooth and lustrous above, duller beneath, 7-12 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, the lowermost pair smallest; petiolules striate, minutely puberu-lent, the laterals 3-6 mm long, the terminals to 12 mm long. Inflorescences axil-lary or subterminal thryses, branched from the base, puberulent, the branches spreading, 7-13 cm long in fruit. Flowers with the pedicels puberulent, 2-3 mm long in fruit; "3-merous, 3-4 mm long and 2-2.5 mm in diam. Calyx cupu-liform, nearly half as long as the flower; its lobes triangular, obtuse, as long as the tube. Corolla tubular, outside papillose, inside glabrous but near the apex provided with some hairs, carnose, red; its lobes ovate-triangular, acute, about as long as the tube. Stamens in the masc. fi. as long as the tube of the corolla, in the fem. fi. shorter; filaments very short, much dilated; anthers elliptic, apicu-late. Disc annular, 6-lobed, glabrous, 0.25 mm high. Pistil glabrous, in the masc. fi. forming with the disc a hardly 1 mm high cone, in the fem. fi. 2 mm high; ovary conical ovoid, 1.5 mm high; stigma 2-lobed, sessile." Fruits globose, gla-brous, the exocarp brown, thin, slightly wrinkled, 6-7 mm in diameter.
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