Jollydora

Small, evergreen, usually unbranched treelets; young parts reddish to light brown woolly, silky or tomentose. Leaves usually imparipinnate, sometimes paripinnate, mostly crowded near top; leaflets 5-11, opposite to alternate, elliptic to obovate or oblong, cuneate at base, long-acuminate, petiolulate. Inflorescence 1-several, up to 7-flowered clustered racemes on old wood, rarely axillary; pedicel articulate, with 1 small bract and 2 opposite bracteoles, cauliflorous. Flowers heterostylous. Sepals 5, free, imbricate, unequal: outer 2 smaller. Petals 5, free or somewhat coherent, imbricate. Stamens 10, united at base into a +/-conspicuous cup partly enclosing ovary; filaments glabrous. Carpel 1; ovary ellipsoid, pubescent; style +/-glabrous; stigma usually slightly lobed. Fruit 1- or 2-seeded, obovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose, shortly stipitate; pericarp shiny, glabrous or glabrescent. Seeds 1 or 2 per fruit; testa almost completely fleshy; cotyledons thick and almost horny, radicle minute.