Trimeria Harv.

Shrubs or trees. Leaves persistent, alternate, (3–)5–9-nerved from the base, petiolate, glandular-serrate-crenate or-sinuate-dentate; stipules conspicuous, often foliaceous, finally caducous. Flowers dioecious, small, sessile, solitary or in glomerules along the rhachis of spike-like, simple or panicled axillary racemes. Sepals 3–5, slightly connate at the base, subimbricate. Petals 3–5, similar to the sepals, imbricate. Male flowers: disk-glands 3–5, opposite the sepals. Stamens 9–15, in bundles of 3 (rarely 4), alternating with the disk-glands; anthers minute. Rudiment of ovary minute. Female flowers : stamens 0. Ovary sessile, surrounded at the base by 3–5 flattish disk-glands, 1-locular, with 3 parietal placentas borne high up on the ovary-wall, each bearing 1–3 pendent ovules. Capsule 3-valved, subcoriaceous, 1–2(rarely–3)-seeded. Seeds arillate; testa crustaceous, finely pitted.