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Glabrous with pale green, terete, unarmed extremities. Leaflets rather coriaceous, elongate, oblong-oval or oblanceolate-oval, acute, more or less acuminate, narrowed to the base and shortly petiolulate, entire or obsoletely undulate-denticulate above, 5–6 in. long, 1–1 3/4 in. broad, on petioles 1–2 in. Male flowers 4-merous, sessile, subglomerulate, minutely bracteolate, in axillary and terminal alternately branching panicles shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes short, broadly rounded, submucronulate. Petals oblong, imbricate, rather thick. Stamens 4. Female flowers in axillary spikes shorter than the petioles. Ovary 1-celled with a sessile, peltate, rounded, entire stigma.