Tree up to 12 m. tall; bark smooth, grey, peeling with straw-coloured strips; young branches glabrous. Leaves pinnate; petiole up to 13 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets 3–4-jugate, up to 9·5 × 3 cm., oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire or undulate or very sparsely denticulate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, glabrous; petiolules up to 8 mm. long, but usually less, often with a few hairs near the point of attachment to the rhachis. Flowers appearing with the leaves, in axillary paniculate cymes up to 25 cm. long; branches of inflorescence glabrous; bracteoles up to 1 mm. long, ovate; pedicels 1–3 mm. long, slender, glabrous. Calyx c. 2·5 mm. long, campanulate, tapering to the pedicel, lobed to half-way, glabrous. Petals c. 4 mm. long. Stamen-filaments somewhat broadened towards the base, disk-lobes not developed. Fruit c. 1·6 × 0·9 cm., ellipsoid, apiculate, glabrous; pseudaril cupular, very fleshy, clasping the lowest third of the endocarp, margin undulate; endocarp c. 1 × 0·8 cm., ellipsoid, smooth, both faces moderately convex.