Large tree with grey bark, branches pubescent, leaves alternate, exstipulate, imparipinnate, 25-30 cm long, crowded towards the ends of branches; leaflets more than 5 pairs, opposite, subsessile, lanceolate to ovate, entire, acuminate, oblique, crenate; flowers polygamous, small, pubescent, on much branched, axillary, tomentose panicles; calyx urceolate, pubescent, 5-cleft, almost halfway down; lobes ovate-oblong; petals 5, linear, valvate, inserted on calyx tube between the calyx teeth, crenate; disk large, completely clothing the tube of calyx; stamens 6-10; about as long as petals, inserted at the margin of disk; filaments hairy at the base; ovary 4-5 celled sessile; style long, stout, erect, hairy; stigma capitate; 4-5-lobed; ovules 2 in each locule; drupe indehiscent, black, fleshy, smooth, globose, containing 3 sometime 1-5, bony,1 seeded not separating, pyrenes; seeds solitary pendulous.