Harmandia
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Description
Monoecious tree.
Leaves distichous, penninerved, with infrequent laticifers.
Petals 4 in the ♂, 6-8 in the ♀, connate to an urceolate tube for the lower ¾, free above in form of 4 lobes.
Ovary rudimentary.
Ovary pyramidal, 1-celled, with 2 (unitegmic or naked?) ovules pendent from the short basal placenta;
Fruit drupaceous, concrescent with the much enlarged calyx below;
Seed 1, containing exclusively oil;