Schotia

Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets usually in 3-18 pairs, coriaceous, lower usually smaller than upper; stipules small, deciduous. Inflorescence a short lateral or terminal panicle or raceme, sometimes produced from old wood, many-flowered. Flowers bisexual, red or pink; bracts caducous. Calyx turbinate or subcampanulate, with 4 imbricate lobes longer than tube, persisting in fruit. Petals 5, or, in S. brachypetala, some or all petals reduced to linear filaments, arising in mouth of calyx tube, somewhat unequal, imbricate. Stamens 10, arising with petals, free or connate at base. Ovary somewhat unequal-sided, with stalk adnate to calyx tube, many-ovuled; style terete, with terminal, capitate stigma. Pod often woody, oblong or broadly linear, often falcate, sometimes beaked, compressed, with a hard margin or wing along upper suture, which persists, often with seeds attached, poorly dehiscent. Seeds compressed-orbicular, with funicle small or sometimes expanded into a fleshy, cup-like aril. x= 12.