Apodytes
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Description
Trees.
Leaves spirally arranged, entire, penninerved, nigrescent.
Flowers bisexual, in terminal and axillary corymbs (in Mal.), small, cylindric in bud, articulate with the short pedicel.
Petals (4-)5, free or a little coherent at base, valvate in bud, finally spreading, linear, glabrous, obscurely keeled on the inner side, with a shortly inflexed apex.
Stamens 5, almost as long as the petals;
Ovary oblique, with an unilateral swelling;
Seed 1, compressed, ovate-reniform, testa thin.