Tree to 25 m. tall. Leaves to 30 cm. long; leaflets 3-6 pairs borne alternately on the rachis (rarely-oppositely), 1 leaflet of the terminal pair sometimes oriented with the axis to simulate the terminal leaflet of an imparipinnate leaf; blades 4-17 cm. long, 1.5-6.5 cm. wide, lanceolate tor elliptical, occasionally somewhat obovate, the base usually acute, the apex obtuse to acuminate-obtuse, the midrib markedly raised above; leaflets and rachis glabrous, very rarely minutely puberulent. Inflo-rescences axillary, paniculate, 5-20 cm. long, glabrous to scattered-puberulent. Flowers white or greenish, 4-to 6-merous, 2-3 mm. long; calyx saucer-shaped, the lobes deltoid, glabrous to pubescent without; petals puberulent or pubescent with-out, glabrous within; staminal tube 2/3 3/4 the height of the corolla, glabrous or scattered-pubescent without; anthers as many as or twice as many as the corolla lobes, alternating with an apiculum 1/3-12 the length of the anthers; ovary and style generally pubescent, the stigma disk-like. Fruit red to brown, ellipsoidal, muricate, 3-to 4-valved, with only 1 or 2 seeds developing per fruit; seeds covered with a red aril.
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