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Leaves imparipinnate; petiole and rhachis up to 21 cm. long, densely puberulous; leaflets up to 11·5 × 5 cm., usually smaller, opposite or alternate, 4–6 (7)-jugate, proximal leaflets broadly ovate, distal leaflets elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, the others intermediate, apex subacuminate, base rounded (cuneate in terminal leaflets) and asymmetric, lower surface puberulous, especially on nerves; petiolules 1–4 mm. long.
Filaments 1·5–2·5 mm. long, united only at the base, glabrous outside, densely villous in the upper half inside with hairs completely blocking the throat. Appendages deltate-acuminate, 3/4 as long as the anthers; anthers 1·25 mm. long, scarcely apiculate, antherodes shorter, not producing pollen.
Capsule c. 1·5 × 1·5 cm., globose, surface smooth, not or scarcely wrinkled, tomentellous, glabrescent, opening by 3 thinly woody valves.
Flowers white, appearing with the leaves, very small, crowded, in axillary paniculate cymes; peduncles up to 7 cm. long, puberulous.
Ovary 3-locular; style 2 mm. long, glabrous; style-head ovoid, with 3 erect stigmatic lobes; ovules collateral.
Seeds dull dark red, less than 1/3 covered by an orange aril forming a cushion at the apex.
Pistillode similar to the gynoecium but narrower and apparently without vestigial ovules.
Disk cupuliform, fleshy, glabrous, free from the staminal tube except at the base.
Calyx 1 mm. long, puberulous, shallowly cupuliform, with minute teeth.
Shrub about 3 m. tall or medium-sized tree up to 15 m. tall.
Petals 3–4·5 mm. long, puberulous outside.
