Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricate, the inner larger. Petals 5, equalling or exceeding the inner sepals. Stamens numerous, 5-adelphous, very shortly connate in each phalange; filaments free above, continued to the apex of the narrow elongate extrorse anther-cells. Ovary 5-celled, narrowed into the elongate style divided at the apex into 5 spreading linear lobes; ovules several in each cell. Fruit baccate with a thick fleshy pericarp, 3–5-celled. Seeds large, 1 or 2 in each cell; testa glabrous, shining; albumen 0; embryo an undivided thick radicle (tigella); cotyledons 0. —A large glabrous tree, abounding in a yellow juice. Leaves coriaceous, penniveined. Flowers large, red, terminal, solitary.