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Petals 10 in 2 rows, the outer larger and thicker than the inner, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed to the base, pellucid gland-dotted.
Style obconic, truncate at the apex, bearing 5 oval stigmatic patches round the side and obscurely 5-lobed at the apex.
Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, narrowed toward the apex, clavate at the base; ovules 10–31 in 1–2 rows on 5 placentae.
Fruit a globose, ovoid or narrowly ellipsoidal berry with coriaceous pericarp; seeds immersed in green pulp.
Stamens 10, united into a tube, the pan extending above the anthers 10-crenellated; anthers 10.
Inflorescences axillary, the flowers solitary or 3–4 in reduced cymes.
Sepals broadly ovate to reniform, very obtuse.
Leaves very shiny above.
Evergreen trees.
