Compilation
Vepris undulata

Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 5 m. tall; branches, inflorescences and leaves glabrous. Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; petiole 1–5 (7) cm. long, rather slender, narrowly grooved above. Leaflets sessile; lamina 5–12 × 1·5–3·2 cm., narrowly elliptic, densely dotted with minute pellucid glands, acute or obtuse or blunt at the apex, margin somewhat undulate, cuneate at the base. Inflorescence of terminal dense much-branched panicles; bracteoles very small, glabrous or slightly puberulous, caducous. Flowers 4-merous, unisexual by abortion; pedicels 1–3 (5) mm. long. Sepals 4, united at the base into a very short 4-lobed calyx 0·5 mm. long, ciliolate on the margin. Petals 4, 2 × 1 mm., slightly imbricate in bud, obovate or elliptic. Male flowers: stamens 8, inserted at the base of a narrow disk, with subulate filaments flattened at the base and shorter than the petals; anthers basifixed, 2-lobed at the base, laterally dehiscent. Female flowers: vestigial staminodes 8; ovary subglobose, 4-locular; stigma subsessile, broadly discoid. Fruit 5 mm. in diam., black when ripe, somewhat depressed, 4-locular, slightly 4-lobed; loculi 1-seeded, 1 or 2 seeds sometimes aborting. Seeds 3 mm. long, black, subtrigonal; testa hard with subapical hilum; endosperm scanty.